Month: June 2010

Cowen’s road

With a blog post titled “The Road to Medicare, not The Road to Serfdom,” Tyler Cowen got me to read his NY Times column in

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Bye-bye Firefox

After multiple attempts Firefox failed to upgrade to a functioning version of 3.6.4 on two of my computers. That’s all I need to jump ship.

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This can't be right

Usually, I’d stay away from something like this.  But this can’t be right. Dave Weigel is out from the Washington Post.  There’s no way I’m

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Not bragging, just amazed!

Once upon a time I didn’t understand the internet, at least not the way I do now. In particular, I didn’t appreciate how certain bloggers

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Consolidation fever

Kaiser Health News anticipates the consolidation in insurer and provider markets due to the new health law. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that … health insurers are

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Massachusetts rate cap wars

Jenn Abelson and Todd Wallack report in today’s Boston Globe that the attempt by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to hold down insurance rate increases has

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At AcademyHealth

The 2010 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting will be held a few miles from my office. So, I’ll be there, as will my colleague and co-blogger

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Medicare Doc Fix Options

A colleague asked on Facebook if I knew about any serious Medicare doc fix options (as in, scrapping the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system and

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Circular Filibuster Blogging

Jim Hufford recently completed a very good five-part series on the filibuster, to which I linked in the initial post of my own series. Since

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