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Archive for the ‘Affordable Care Act’ Category
January 11th, 2012
Category: Affordable Care Act, Sports
No family should have to face what Rocky and Annette Clark did after he was rendered quadriplegic in a football game.
December 22nd, 2011
Mark Kleiman and I go Bloggingheads on drugs and HIV in the Russian Federation, poppy eradication in Afghanistan, Mexican drug violence, dealing with drug users and drug sellers in United States.
December 9th, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act, Public management
CMS administrator Don Berwick was forced out of office because of a Republican filibuster. He’s come out swinging about death panels, rationing, the need for universal access to care, quality improvement, and more. But here’s my question: Why now?
December 6th, 2011
The best discussion of medical malpractice issues I’ve heard in awhile.
November 15th, 2011
Libertarians and conservatives have become fond of calling the individual mandate totalitarian–or at least a gross and unconscionable deprivation of individual liberty. But if so, why are they so comfortable with the prospect of courts finding it unconstitutional only when the *federal* government imposes it?
November 7th, 2011
An interview with Jeffrey Toobin in our monthly “Learn from the Experts” series.
October 31st, 2011
In the middle of his evisceration of the House Republicans’ attack on the Affordable Care Act, MIT’s Jonathan Gruber notes that the attack claims that the ACA’s tax credits are a form of spending. But…but…but…Saint Grover says that we cannot get rid of any corporate welfare tax credits because that is a tax increase! So [...]
October 27th, 2011
Matthew Yglesias offers some gracious words about my review of Paul Starr’s book on health care reform. But he professes “worry that Pollack’s take on this falls into the progressive reformer trap of underplaying the centrality of tax policy disagreements to current American politics.”