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CBO: Quarterly report on the impact of the ARRA on employment
I’ve gotten a number of emails asking me why I keep stressing that we need to pay attention to life expectancy at age 65, when
UPDATED – the case remands back to the district court – see at the bottom Certificate of Need (CON) laws are a holdover from President
By email, Paul Van de Water raised a very good point about how raising the Medicare retirement age would affect certain union health benefits. Apparently–and
The University of Cambridge is so quirky – I love it. In October, Cambridge will choose a new Chancellor of the University, to replace HRH
I’m very pleased to announce that, beginning September 15th, The Incidental Economist will be supported, in part, by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This is
CFRFB writes that the CBO’s August budgetary update (based on current law) is likely too optimistic. The current law projection assumes, among other things, that the tax code
In NEJM, Victor Fuchs asks of doctors, “How can a commitment to cost-effective care be reconciled with a fundamental principle of primacy of patient welfare?” As
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