Health care policy expert Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, makes the bold prediction in the New York Times that in just eight years the health insurance industry will be extinct in America. He claims it will be replaced by accountable care organizations, or ACOs. Emanuel’s description of how [...]

This is a truly absurd line from Uwe. E. Reinhardt in his New York Times blog post, but I think it does a great job of capturing what is so wrong with the health care debate in this country. The American health insurance system now is structured as a paradise for clever adolescents, inviting gaming [...]

Whenever I’m watching the news one of the things I notice is there simply aren’t enough voices for rich elites and their children on television. I worry that I won’t hear about things from the perspective of millionaires with close ties to Wall Street (except on CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, Fox News, CNN, etc…). [...]

I don’t mind being attacked for my views. After all, I try to be thought-provoking, bring a new perspective to issues, and offer creative ideas that might not be popular. What I do find strange is being attacked in the New York Time by Jonathan Chait for what I consider a completely noncontroversial statement: in [...]

The United States’ Department of Justice is now investigating the rating agency Standard & Poor’s according to the NYT

I know a lot of people have already discussed this New York Times article but this one passage truly scared me. From the NYT: The issue is being framed by the 2012 election. Administration officials, frustrated by the intransigence of House Republicans, have increasingly concluded that the best thing Mr. Obama can do for the [...]

I’m skeptical that July 22nd is really any more of a fiscal drop dead date for the deal than say the 24th or 27th. Legislation could be drafted very quicker if need be and the Treasury probably has several short term tricks it could deploy if all that is really needed is a few extra days to put an agreed deal into legislative language.

The reason to stay off of slippery slopes is that once you start sliding down them, it is very hard to return to the top of the slope. The new guidelines from the FBI are a perfect example of how civil liberties erode.

A new study by the state of Arizona shows that private prisons end up costing the state more than public facilities. From the New York Times: The conviction that private prisons save money helped drive more than 30 states to turn to them for housing inmates. But Arizona shows that popular wisdom might be wrong: [...]

It is another year for record profits for the health insurance industry. From the New York Times: The nation’s major health insurers are barreling into a third year of record profits, enriched in recent months by a lingering recessionary mind-set among Americans who are postponing or forgoing medical care. The UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest [...]