Day: January 19, 2011

What if we didn’t make a “doc fix”?

Austin Frakt January 19, 2011

Someone, presumably fed up with the whole Medicare “doc fix” issue, asked by e-mail, “Why not just massively cut physician payment?” Since I went to

R and R

Multiple Authors January 19, 2011

Sour, personified Maybe we really don’t have enough woolly mammoths these days Why we need, and should respect, the CBO

Aaron’s latest CNN column

Austin Frakt January 19, 2011

Aaron asked me to post a link to his latest CNN column on the repeal vote (what else?). Find it here.

Putting on the budget hawk hat

Austin Frakt January 19, 2011

I do actually care about the deficit, so this isn’t hard. If my budget hawk hat were the only one I wore, I’d think this

Of markets, choices, mandates, and the uncertainty of reform

Austin Frakt January 19, 2011

I’ve just finished reading Theodore Marmor’s The Politics of Medicare. A few passages in the final pages are worth quoting. In the following, which appears on

Day: January 19, 2011

What if we didn’t make a “doc fix”?

R and R

Aaron’s latest CNN column

Putting on the budget hawk hat

Of markets, choices, mandates, and the uncertainty of reform

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Day: January 19, 2011

What if we didn’t make a “doc fix”?

R and R

Aaron’s latest CNN column

Putting on the budget hawk hat

Of markets, choices, mandates, and the uncertainty of reform

The Incidental Economist

Editors In Chief

Managing Editor

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