President Obama is preparing to make some deficit cutting suggestions to the supercommittee. I’ve heard they’ll be announced on Monday. The Wall Street Journal is
CBPP: Report on poverty and health insurance Kaiser: Medicare Advantage Data Spotlight Kaiser: 5 facts on the uninsured (updated) RWJF: Bluebutton initiative on patient access
Yesterday, on Twitter, I intepreted Paul Kelleher as asserting that welfare economics is “silly.” Today, in a post, he clarifies his views. If you love,
A reader fisked the concluding statement in my previous post by email: Although your post about infant mortality is spot on, there really isn’t much
Nothing new here. I just need to post this chart because I keep looking for it for reference. My main takeaway is that the US
“Has everyone in here seen an integral? Good. Because I didn’t have a backup plan” — Ramamurti Shankar (Word document). This blog’s readership is undoubtedly dominated by
A new study in the Archives of Neurology reports the possibility that inhaled insulin could slow memory decline and improve function in persons suffering from
Every time I talk about infant mortality as a metric of quality, someone gets upset at me that it should never be used in cross-country
Congressional Republicans and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce seek to repeal the employer mandate, reports Julian Pecquet (The Hill). “Bills to repeal the requirement that businesses provide
In commenting on a libertarian take on health care, Ezra Klein notes, Health-care services are somewhat unique in that they’re a rare form of consumption
In the comments to my Gov. Perry post yesterday, TIE readers asked for more facts about the uninsured in Texas. Happy to oblige. 1. Texas is
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