Who thinks that Trump is “in the grip of some kind of paranoid delusion” ? That is the very hottest quote in the must read Phllip Rucker “analysis” of what is very wrong with the President. I immediately tried to guess who had told Rucker that. The source is “One GOP figure close to the White House “. My first guess was Newt Gingrich (who can be relied upon to stab everyone close to him in the back). However, I now think Rucker made it very clear who...
Read More »A Little Editorial Humor from The News for the Week
Click on Each Cartoon Editorial Cartoon by: Dan Wasserman Copyright 2017 Tribune Content Agency Editorial Cartoon by: Dan Wasserman Copyright 2017 Tribune Content Agency
Read More »Open thread May 12, 2017
Where the ACA Should Go Next?
run75441: This is the first in a series of 3 posts written by Maggie Mahar discussing Medicare, what it covers, and what it lacks in coverage. Maggie touches on the Public Option and Medicare. I start to get edgy when people talk about the Public Option, Universal Coverage, Single Payor, Medicare-For-All, etc. as they do not really define it and who will control its funding. We have a Congress which is intent on cutting the PPACA/ACA/Obamacare which many take...
Read More »What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss
Via Naked Capitalism comes Andrew Bacevich’s piece on What Obsessing About Trump Causes Us To Miss:
Read More »EPA website rescue
Via Upworthy On May 7, the city of Chicago put up a full copy of the pages on its own website — and they’re encouraging other cities to do the same.
Read More »Consumer Reports: Obamacare reduced bankruptcy rate
A new article at consumerreports.org suggests that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act* (PPACA) played a substantial role in the decline of annual personal bankruptcies that we have seen since the high of 1.5 million in 2010. As I showed several years ago, international bankruptcy data support the oft-heard claim that medical bills make up one of the biggest, if not the biggest, causes of personal bankruptcy. That is, if the United States has a...
Read More »Strong growth in labor force participation is correlated with weak real wage growth
by New Deal democrat Strong growth in labor force participation is correlated with weak realwage growth Prof. Jared Bernstein has a piece in the Washington Post today (and at his blog) noting that, even with much improved unemployment and underemployment rates, wage growth is still subpar. One item I wanted to add to the conversation is the inverse correlation between the prime age labor force participation rate and wage growth. As I I’ve pointed out several...
Read More »Declinable medical conditions
Lifted from Alternet: Which ailments are on the list of preexisting conditions that can drive up prices for coverage? The Kaiser Family Foundation catalogs “so-called declinable medical conditions” before the ACA. AIDS/HIV Alcohol or drug abuse with recent treatment Alzheimer’s/dementia Anorexia Arthritis Bulimia Cancer Cerebral palsy Congestive heart failure Coronary artery/heart disease, bypass surgery Crohn’s disease Diabetes More listed below the fold....
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