The usual thing. A party. Neighbor asks what I do. The usual discussion. Universal healthcare. Neighbor asks, “But why should my tax dollars support healthcare for, say, people who smoke, or who made themselves obese and then can’t seem to control...
The other day the San Francisco Chronicle carried an article by their Washington correspondent in which a number of economists speculated that, for the first time, it seems reasonably possible that the United States Government is headed for a financial meltdown of the...
Two years after its landmark report on U.S. health care, the Commonwealth Fund has released an update. Vast, careful, detailed, and thoughtful, it paints a difficult picture. Most of the data is from 2006; the data of the 2006 study was mostly from...
(From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, January 15, 2008) The attempt to create the Next Health Care faces a much greater threat than politics. [The growing influence of money in politics and regulation is so pervasive that it drowns out most real discussion of...
