I supposed by now everybody has heard about CERN’s announced likely discovery of the Higgs particle. Well, OK, “everybody” is probably an exaggeration. In a very recent Pew survey, only 55% of those asked knew that the Supreme Court had … Continue reading
The folks at Failblog have compiled a set of alleged Twitter tweets from people so outraged by the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) that they’re moving to Canada. I hope I don’t have to explain … Continue reading
The May 29 issue of The Los Angeles Times published an interesting article on a trend among health insurers (including those operating nationally, such as Aetna) to require patients to pay a great deal more out of pocket for high-cost … Continue reading
A report in the May 27 issue of The Los Angeles Times describes something surprising: People with health insurance can sometimes pay substantially more out of pocket than people without. In one example they cite, a hospital charged an insured … Continue reading
Princeton professor Paul Starr, co-founder of The American Prospect magazine, has written extensively on the healthcare and public policy and was involved in healthcare reform efforts prior to latest one. His book clearly written and concise and corrects some common … Continue reading
The May issue of The American Prospect has a very interesting article by Paul Starr on an alternative to the so-called “individual mandate” in the Affordable Care Act. I write “so-called” because it doesn’t actually require anyone to buy insurance. … Continue reading
With the Supreme Court currently taking up the Affordable Care Act, the news media are talking about the individual mandate, typically describing it, incorrectly, as a requirement that all Americans (or “almost all”) have health insurance. This understandably leads people … Continue reading
Unless you’ve been off-planet for a week, you’re already familiar with the current hoo-hah over the Rush Limbaugh’s labeling a Georgetown Law School student a “slut” and a “prostitute” for advocating health insurance coverage for contraception and saying that she … Continue reading
In a July 2009 opinion piece for USA Today, Mitt Romney urged President Obama to emulate the Massachusetts approach to health care reform at the federal level. And the very first thing? First, we established incentives for those who were … Continue reading
I’m not sure how much good the following little video will do. What it has to say about the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) is factually accurate. Of necessity it leaves a lot out, but if anything it ends up understating … Continue reading