"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 19th, 2009
Since the GOP as announced their opposition negotiation and any health reform at all, the Obama administration may abandon trying to get any GOP support. I was wondering how long it would take them to realize the GOP has zero interest in good policy. Their only concern is how best to hamstring the President’s policy [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 1st, 2009
Oxdown Gazette » American Prospect’s Public Health Plan Debate, Part I. This is an interesting debate about the relative virtues of “strong” vs “weak” public plans and the interaction with insurance exchanges. I was in grad school for an Masters in Public Health at Emory, specifically looking at the role on insurance on the delivery [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 30th, 2009
Health care is not a bowl of cherries – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com. Krugman notes that Kenneth Arrow pointed out 45 years ago that competitive markets don’t work in health insurance market. I read and quoted Arrow in a paper I wrote years ago while studying health policy and economics in college. How is [...]
Date: 07/01/2007