Yesterday the Obama administration announced that healthcare.gov “will work smoothly for the vast majority of users.” Presumably they intended this as some sort of victory announcement after their self-imposed deadline of December 1 to fix the many … Continue reading →
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Contributors- Economic and Financial, Must Read
Baseball in Extra Innings: The Wish without the Will – Frederick J. Sheehan
by Frederick Sheehan • • 0 Comments
My ticket to the seventh game of the 1967 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals cost $8.00. That was in the grandstand. The price of the same seat, for the 2013 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals (at Fenway Park in Boston), is $300.00. The inflation of words is bound to the inflation of prices. The grandstand is now called the “right field boxes.” It looks as though box seats, which were front-and-center, not extending far beyond the home and visiting team dugouts, now run to the right-field, bull pen.
Money Morning, Must Read
Meet the Controversial “Bad Actor” Who Will be in Charge of Your Health Care – Money Morning
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Amid a wash of government scandals, America is vulnerable right now. Actions taken by the IRS have left us feeling utterly degraded by the Obama administration.
And another Washington scandal we see brewing won’t make Americans feel any more comfortable about the power granted in our nation’s capital.
Contributors- Economic and Financial, Must Read
Why Taxes Should Pay for Health Care- James Kwak- The Baseline Scenario
by James Kwak •
By James Kwak William Baumol and some co-authors recently published a new book on what is widely known as “Baumol’s cost disease.” This is something that Simon wanted to include in White House Burning, but I couldn’t find a good way … Continue reading →
Contributors- Economic and Financial, Must Read
The ObamaCare Tax on the Middle Class
by James Kwak • • 2 Comments
By James Kwak So the new Republican argument (which Mitt Romney was against before he was in favor of it) is that the individual mandate is an oppressive tax on the middle class. Cute, isn’t it, adopting John Roberts’s argument? … Continue reading →
Contributors- Economic and Financial, Must Read
Pure Spite – James Kwak – The Baseline Scenario
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By James Kwak In my Atlantic column on Thursday, I wrote the following about the Roberts Court’s decision to allow states to opt out of Medicaid expansion without losing their existing Medicaid funding: “What we are going to see is … Continue reading →
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The secret world of health care pricing- Hey Doctors, Eff You Too!
by Newswires • • 2 Comments
…the prices your insurance company pays are based on a set of values listed in a phone-book sized directory of billing codes. Those codes are pretty much the economic hierarchy of modern medicine… And those values are set by a closed-door committee of the American Medical Association. At the Marketplace Health Desk at WHYY, Gregory…
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U.S. Added Only 115,000 Jobs in April – Rate Is 8.1% – NYTimes.com
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The United States had another month of disappointing job growth in April, the Labor Department said Friday. The nation’s employers added 115,000 positions on net, after adding 154,000 in March. April’s job growth was less than what economists had been predicting. The unemployment rate ticked down to 8.1 percent in April, from 8.2 percent, partly…
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Employers could save billions by dropping workers from health plans, report shows | Fox News
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A new survey of Fortune 100 companies finds that the health care overhaul, contrary to the claims of its authors, created some perverse incentives for employers to drop workers from company insurance plans. Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee surveyed the top 100 companies about how much they spent on health care —…
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Supreme Court to Hear Health Care Case
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
The supreme court hearing anything is scary. They are just as corrupt as the Federal Government. Its always some 5 to 4 decision or some BS like that. They need to replace Supreme court Justices every five years or so.
Health Care – Supreme Court
