A jaundiced look at the world we live in.
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.
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?
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.
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.
In all the talk about healthcare being “socialized medicine,” there has been precious little effort made to DEFINE the difference between, for example, “socialized medicine” systems and single-payer systems.
The best description of the difference I’ve come across is this: