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Choose Blog: Free exchange No easy answers in a dysfunctional Washington The Economist | WASHINGTON JAMES HAMILTON has written a good post on the issue of the American government deficit: [T]he question before us is, what will...
Some links to tide your over to Turkey Day. House vs. Senate Reform Bills: A graphic comparison. Physician’s cost to interaction with health plan: over $23 billion. Early Detection Does Not Equal Prevention. Daily Lesson Plan:...
Sure, once it's done worrying about unemployment THE easy answer is yes, America should worry about its deficit. The hard question is how much should it worry about it relative to other potential problems. Tyler Cowen attempts...
More signs that New Jersey is absolutely the greatest state in the nation, and not simply because it was the stamping grounds at some point of virtually all great past, present, and future libertarians (well, at least Milton...
A few of you have asked what I think about ClimateGate. Mostly I concur with Tyler Cowen and Robin Hanson: I have so far seen no evidence of the kind of grand conspiracy that some critics have charged. Rather, to...
Felix Salmon submits: Edmund Andrews has a long front-page story today on what he calls “the United States’ long-term budget crisis” — and has occasioned a strangulated “ Urg ” out of Paul Krugman in doing so. Krugman wrote a...
Think how much money we could save! In his June 13 New York Times op-ed, Tyler Cowen wrote, “Medicare expenditures threaten to crush the federal budget.” The title of the article was “Something’s Got to Give in Medicare...
What should we do instead of the Obama health reform bill? posted by reenum (24 comments total) Hahah. Republicans and blue-dog Democrats, despite their recent fear-mongering among the elderly, absolutely hate Medicare and...
NMC Campus Observer Note… You can watch this Metanomics show live at Outreach (87, 125, 34) on NMC Campus Here are Professor Robert Bloomfield’s prepared remarks for his closing opinion piece for this week’s show: Today’s guest...
Any discussion of cutting costs in health care must address Medicare. Any attempts to discuss Medicare provokes the demagogues on both sides to incite the elderly against whatever plan is being proposed. It is 100% predictable....
