Category Archives: Health Care
Costs more! Covers less!
Public policy operates under many of the same incentives as the private marketplace. For example: in Congress, if the opposition offers compelling ideas in response to the majority, then on balance this legislative competition will make the final bill better. … Continue reading
Filed under Health Care
On Sen. Kerry and PricewaterhouseCoopers
I’ve been keeping half an eye on Brian Beutler’s excellent live-blogging of the Senate Finance Committee’s vote on health care reform, and Senator John Kerry just made a perplexing comment about the PricewaterhouseCoopers report [PDF] commissioned by the health insurance … Continue reading
Filed under Economics, Health Care
An Optimistic Reading of Grassley
Ezra Klein notes that despite some perfunctory optimism from Max Baucus about the chances of bipartisan health care reform, the Gang of Six is all but dead: It’s hard to see how the chances are still good if the Republicans … Continue reading
Filed under Health Care, Politics
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