Update: My quality control department — which consists of one guy who lives in a different country, and gets paid nothing — alerted me in the comments… Read more “Too Much Aggregation”
Tag: Health
Proof of Concept
Since I haven’t gotten any takers on my bets (nor do I expect any), I will share this information with the gambling public, which comes from the… Read more “Proof of Concept”
Prognostications
The Senate Health Care Bill passed the House today in a 219-212 vote, with the reconciliation “sidecar”. Progressives and other leftist-liberals are obviously very excited, and billing… Read more “Prognostications”
Insider Trading?
Running around the news has been the recent spikes in InTrade odds of the health care “reform” bill passing. See the chart below. Now comes news that… Read more “Insider Trading?”
The Way of the World
Something I have been thinking about is the effect of assuming that every state in the United States was its own country on health care. The equilibrium… Read more “The Way of the World”
Trust: Health Care Edition
Gallup tracks American opinion on who is “trusted” on health care: No surprises there, given that Republicans couldn’t articulate a plan to save their lives — and… Read more “Trust: Health Care Edition”
The Trends to Foster (Reply to Edwin Perello)
Over at his blog, Edwin Perello has a very subtle critique of my “market-based” approach to primary care: The problem with this idea, of getting rid of… Read more “The Trends to Foster (Reply to Edwin Perello)”
Crowding Out
The much more skilled letter-writer, Don Boudreaux, has a very interesting one today. I’m finding it increasingly annoying that I have tons of trouble embedding audio and… Read more “Crowding Out”
Put Your Money…
Paul Krugman is very sure of the fact that if health care “reform” passes, there will be a reduction in premiums: So the big factual debate in… Read more “Put Your Money…”
The “Callous Right-Winger” in Me
Glen Greenwald recently Tweeted a link that I blindly followed to find this: It really is amazing, though. I didn’t flinch when I heard this story [Conservative… Read more “The “Callous Right-Winger” in Me”