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Tag Archives: health care
Health Care and the Supreme Court
There’s a lot of tea leaf reading going on about the oral arguments at the Supreme Court. I’ve heard a lot about Jeffrey Toobin’s take, which is: “This was a train wreck for the Obama administration,” he said, echoing the views … Continue reading
Keep Your ObamaCare Hands Off My ACA
We’ve noted around here a time or two before, as recently as yesterday, that Republicans don’t have views on policy; they just like being part of a side. Jonathan Bernstein, parrying pundits who can’t understand how the GOP could nominate … Continue reading
The Long-Term Debt Issue Is Health Care Costs
As we’ve discussed before around here, the long-term debt issue is health care costs. Via Matt Yglesias, this chart from Yuval Levin: Below the jump, some more context on this issue, drawing on the previous post.
How Republicans Argue
Kay at BJ relates a rare tale of reality asserting itself in political debate: Conservatives and media promoted three big lies about the health care law. The law included death panels, it funded abortions, and it was a government takeover of the … Continue reading
(Our Discourse About) Medicare Is Bankrupt!
Medicare isn’t bankrupt and isn’t nearing bankruptcy. Just as was the case in the 1980s and 1990s when people who hated Medicare claimed it was about to implode, it’s on solid footing. There’s a whole bunch to substantiate that here; … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Politics
Tagged debt, deficit, health care, health reform, medicare
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Now That Obama’s President, America’s A Laughingstock
From today’s LA Times: So frightening is the Yankee example that any British politician who values his job has to explicitly disavow it as a possible outcome. Twice. “We will not be selling off the NHS, we will not be … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Politics
Tagged foreigners, health care, health insurance, politics
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Brilliant!
Kevin Drum is onto something regarding Medicare: So why not have dead people pay? They don’t need the money any more, after all. So Medicare stays roughly the same, but every time you receive medical care you also get a … Continue reading
Intellectual Evisceration Is Meaningless In Politics
Jonathan Chait thinks that seeing a Republican run to the left of the Democrat on cuts to Social Security and Medicare in the NY-23 special election means that Paul Ryan’s plan is dead. I think this is too simplistic.
Posted in News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged debt, deficit, health care, politics, republican party
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The Death Of Conservatism As A Political Philosophy
Health care costs are different from costs of, say, toasters or Ford trucks. Health care decisions are often made in emergency situations, require expert input and action, and are so expensive that they can only be paid for by using … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged conesrvatism, constitution, health care, health insurance, law, mitt romney, politics
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A Really Big Chart About Health Care Costs
From. Via.
The Study Concluded When the Researchers Failed to Escape a Hospital
This really isn’t very encouraging. ‘Global Trigger Tool’ Shows That Adverse Events In Hospitals May Be Ten Times Greater Than Previously Measured We compared three methods to detect adverse events in hospitalized patients, using the same patient sample set from … Continue reading
In the Strife of Truth with Falsehood: The Present Crisis Explained by Charts
The US federal government has high current debt levels. Though not astronomical by current world standards.
Posted in News and Current Events, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged charts, debt, deficit, economics, health care, politics, taxation
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Just in: The GOP wants you to get cancer in your herpes
Ezra Klein draws attention to the most important graphic in this debate over Planned Parenthood: (source: Planned Parenthood) As with all things that they supposed are “serious people” about, here, the GOP is happy to get rid of an important … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged abortion, budget, GOP, health care, planned parenthood
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