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Kaiser Obamacare premium study: Affordable Care Act will be cheaper than expected.
Kaiser Obamacare premium study: Affordable Care Act will be cheaper than expected.
The real success will be when the right starts using it as an example of market based reforms rather than dismissing it as socialized medicine.
It Takes A Government (To Make A Market)
It Takes A Government (To Make A Market)
there’s an additional factor, that even supporters of the Affordable Care Act mostly missed: the extent to which, for the first time, the Act is creating a truly functioning market in nongroup insurance.
Market based reforms often require government. This should be obvious, but since it violates right-wing political correctness, it is ignored or shouted down.
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McCain playing poker on his iPhone during Committee hearing on Syria. McCain playing poker on his iPhone
Over 50 Percent of Food Stamp Recipients Live in the Suburbs
Over 50 Percent of Food Stamp Recipients Live in the Suburbs
suburban households’ total food stamp use doubled between 2007 and 2011
White working class suburbs are the new hood.
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Eric Holder Says DOJ Will Let Washington, Colorado Marijuana Laws Go Into Effect
Eric Holder Says DOJ Will Let Washington, Colorado Marijuana Laws Go Into Effect
The United States government took a historic step back from its long-running drug war on Thursday, when Attorney General Eric Holder informed the governors of Washington and Colorado that the Department of Justice would allow the states to create a regime that would regulate and implement the ballot initiatives that legalized the use of marijuana for adults.
First domino! I give it three years.
The Black-White High School Graduation Gap Has Nearly Closed. The Income Gap Is as Big as Ever.
Holder pressed on U.S. drug agency use of hidden data evidence
Holder pressed on U.S. drug agency use of hidden data evidence
It would be nice if the GOP took a break from voting to repeal ObamaCare and spent some time investigating actual abuse in the justice department.
How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
as the tale of the humble IV bag shows all too clearly, it is secrecy that helps keep prices high: hidden in the underbrush of transactions among multiple buyers and sellers, and in the hieroglyphics of hospital bills.
At every step from manufacturer to patient, there are confidential deals among the major players, including drug companies, purchasing organizations and distributors, and insurers. These deals so obscure prices and profits that even participants cannot say what the simplest component of care actually costs, let alone what it should cost.
The term is information asymmetry. And it is one of the reasons why health care in the US is so damn costly and everyone claims that they are not the ones making money on health care.