Category Archives: Random Blogging
Krugman makes it simple
Paul Krugman cuts to the chase and gives a definition of healthcare reform that is easy to understand:
"The essence is really quite simple: regulation of insurers, so that they can't cherry-pick only the healthy, and subsidies, so that all Americans can afford insurance.
OMG–If We Socialize Firefighting, We’ll Betray the Founders……
Political Animal has a fantastic post about the transition from for-profit firefighters to government-run fire departments.How would THAT argument play out if it were happening today?
Good or Bad for Competition?
Yahoo and Microsoft have teamed up to challenge Google. As I understand the deal, Microsoft’s technology will power Yahoo!’s search pages and related advertising. This new relationship between the second and third most popular search engines in the American market is being promoted as a way to encourage more competition, since Google presently has approximately two-thirds of the American market.
Good or Bad for Competition?
Yahoo and Microsoft have teamed up to challenge Google. As I understand the deal, Microsoft’s technology will power Yahoo!’s search pages and related advertising. This new relationship between the second and third most popular search engines in the American market is being promoted as a way to encourage more competition, since Google presently has approximately two-thirds of the American market.