To Avik Roy: No Longer On My List of Reasonable ConservativesThe big reveal: it is “theoretically possible” that this bill is good for healthcare. His words. I guess it’s theoretically possible that I
Why We Make Laws: Policy and Implementation and TrumpcareWhy, it’s almost as if giving tax cuts to the richest amongst us is the only real goal of this “health care bill.”
Not-Failing-Obamacare: One ChartThere does not appear to be anything innate to Obamacare, sans GOP sabotage, which would prevent individual insurance markets from surviving
In Which I Pick a Fight with the Cato InstituteAre "other costs" significant enough to offset government insurance programs significant advantage in direct medical spending.
Volume 15: GerrymanderingPolitics is a game of power, those who have it and those who want it. But we can hope that this power is used, at least occasionally, to ful
Schrödinger’s Rates: Insurance Markets in the World of TrumpIn quantum mechanics, a particle only takes on a property when it is observed. Electrons have spin, either up or down. These are distinct...
CBO Report: The Fine Print of Creating 23 Million UninsuredAll of the quotes you see here are direct quotes from the Report linked above, with page numbers. It’s going to get technical a few times, m