My thoughts on health care reform
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December 17, 2009
People keep asking. I keep saying no. But that isn’t stopping any of you. I am not a politician. I am not an advocate. I
People keep asking. I keep saying no. But that isn’t stopping any of you. I am not a politician. I am not an advocate. I
I think the most interesting – and thoughtful – discussion on health care reform right now may be slowly unfolding on Nate Silver’s site. Yesterday
In a thought provoking comment to my post Causation without Correlation is Possible James Bronzan wrote To my uneducated eye, I’d say that even though
The clash between a priori and experimental economics was joined in the Supreme Court last month in the case of Jones v. Harris Associates. The
A few days ago the first snow of the season fell, and the flakes once delicate and perfect in descent are now joined in tight,
I love Nate Silver. The main reason why that’s so is that he uses pretty scientific methods. He not only will perform complex analyses –
It is well known that correlation does not prove causation. What is less well known is that causation can exist when correlation is zero. The
Some liberals and progressives, among others, might be feeling beaten and depressed today about the loss of the public option or the Medicare buy-in “compromise”
By now you should all know my feelings on the public option. If you don’t (and even if you do), go read my piece at
Lots of emails yesterday about Senator Lieberman and health care reform’s prospects. And, yet, you will notice no posts from me. That’s a conscious decision.
With Yale’s Astro 160 (Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics) I’ve now completed my first semester at Yale, so to speak. It’s the fifth class I’ve
The figure below shows what lack of insurance means in terms of deaths (h/t Ezra Klein). In 2006, the last year for which figures are