An observant reader asks: The new direction features a system of national insurance plans run privately but administered by the Gov’t. Is this akin to
A reader asks: I am 55, and disabled. Although I am eligible for Medicare (disabled for 24+ mth.), I chose to stay on my wife’s
A reader asks: I was listening to the commentary between you and Pete earlier this afternoon and had a question about buy-in and medicare. The
The new Senate compromise must have freaked a lot of you out. I’m getting slammed with emails. I’m going to try and get through a
My inbox is all aflutter with the claims of a deal being made in the Senate to get to 60 votes. As all of you
A few days ago, I said to a friend that I thought the newest proposal to open up Medicare to those less than 65 was
The public option compromise in the Senate includes a national federal fallback plan that is triggered if private non-profit plans don’t fill the role. This
Good, policy relevant, health economics studies are hard to do. They have to satisfy many criteria in multiple dimensions, being fundable, tractable, publishable, timely, relevant, built on accepted methods
Tyler Cowen’s latest book Create Your Own Economy is chock full of ideas, many you (or I) could not guess from the title. The simplest
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