I’m getting a lot of emails about the Republican health care bill. Many are saying I’m being unfair. A surprising number are pointing me to
This is the third post in a three-post series that summarizes Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel lecture as printed in The American Economic Review in December 2003 (full free
Were they listening to me? I don’t care. The CBO granted my wish and scored the Republican health care reform “bill”. Let’s hit the high
In response to a reader’s question, this is the third post pertaining to the solvency of Medicare (U.S., not Canada). The first post put the
One of the little-noticed gems in the House version of the bill is that one of the way is saves money is by putting more
This post is short. Use the balance of your time to read something else. Can’t find anything? Try one of my favorite sources. This is
I’m with Ezra. I can’t do this. I tried, mostly because some of you asked. But I can’t bring myself to treat this as an
This was originally up at the Huffington Post, but I want to repost it here. I apologize for those of you forced to read it
High-risk pools have come up again (see Ezra Klein and Jonathan Cohn). Their best application may be as a transitional measure, to fill the gap
Look, I get that for political reasons, those that oppose reform are going to come up with any excuse they can to fight it. I
I’ve been reading some behavior economics literature. I started with the excellent overviews by Camerer and Camerer and Lowenstein and then moved on to Daniel
One of Ezra Klein’s posts today makes the point that the U.S. health care cost issue is largely about prices, as opposed to volume. He
