I hope everyone looking at the CBO’s long-term budget projections (PDF) understands how completely arbitrary they are. Take, for example, this passage showing how the CBO calculated the long-term cost of Medicare. The CBO claims the cost of private health insurance will eventually grow at the same rate as GDP, yet the cost of Medicare [...]

The government website for the new health-care law, HealthCare.gov, is now up. Overall it is a slick and user-friendly site. Clearly, a lot of work went into the web design. It’s just another sign of how the Obama Administration is determined to sell the new law, although it won’t serve many people at this point. [...]