Underbelly

I tried this on Facebook and nobody bit but I like it and so I'll try again.  That is: couldn't we just give health care to the NSA...

The Economist tells us what can happen when you extend health care to "the overwhelming majority" of your people: Mexi...

Here's a rhetorical problem: how to write this post without making it sound like I'm reporting on a topless mud wrestling cage matc...

By almost any measure, Palookaville and its surrounding county are pretty small potatoes.  We're only 220,000; about 15 percent Hispanic...

...here it is again: Much important work is done by people with sore backs and calloused hands who don’t get paid that much... So this...

Look, I'm all in for some sort of government-sponsored universal health care.  We may (and perhaps should) dicker over particulars,  bu...

There, that about gets it: Much of the white population remains convinced that what BHO and the Democrats did in the ACA was to; dives...

I've been traveling and so not in the thick of the health care aftershocks (though they certainly seem strong enough to register on the...

Geopolitics boffins like to draw the distinction between strategy and tactics (maybe strategy, operations  and tactics, but it's a detai...

Ooh, heads will roll: WSJ op ed speaks well of health care and pensions .

My court-watching skills--Supreme, or otherwise--are just about zero.    This insight hasn't stopped me from assuming that Obamacare is ...

They want health care all right and they want the government to pay for it.  They just don't want to have to take it from a black guy. C...

A couple of days ago here in Amsterdam, we came through one those medical Euromoments that American tourists love to tell about back  home. ...

Number of dialysis machines in Uganda (pop. 32.7 million) (link) .

Off to accompany the troops to Chartres this morning (perhaps in the rain), but in my absence, take a few minutes to absorb Austin Frakt on...

Oh boy, if Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann said it, you could write it off as just wilful ignorance or batshit looniness, ...

Professor Timothy S. Jost from Washington and Lee Law School has put together a commendably boring comparison of ObamaCare, née RomneyCare...

 I'm reading with interest the reports on a new paper by David M. Cutler that repealing Obamacare would cost 250,000 to 400,000 jobs an...

Daniel Gross has the best idea of the day .

Once again, James Kwak administers a reality slap in the health care debate. Forget about "health care" broadly defined: focus o...