Well, this isn't surprising. Hopefully, this time parochial interests won't trump the compelling public interest, although given the extent to which American political institutions favor the former I'm still not inclined to bet on it.
health care
Matt Yglesias points out he doesn't really think that raising sin taxes will reduce health care costs. And he doesn't make that argument in the post in which I attributed.
This Yglesias post reflects a group of beliefs regarding public health that tend to cut across ideological lines, probably because they resonate with some deeply embedded cultural puritanism that affects.
One thing of note to add to this analysis of the Swiss health care system is that, as Ellen Immergut has pointed out, Switzerland is comparable to the U.S. in having an unusually large number of veto points that gave particularly high levels of power...
Long-time readers will know I agree entirely with this:So that’s the context in which to ask whether or not it makes sense to have a supermajority requirement for many Senate.
This abominable rule shouldn't survive the first week of the Obama presidency; the fact that it will -- because reversing it takes a good bit of time and squanders resources.
Family visitation and work commitments meant that I didn't see any speeches at the GOP convention last night; I can't say I was terribly disappointed. Nonetheless, I did look at some transcripts and clips. We could do this all day, but consider the density of...
Further proof that the Bush administration thinks it is above the law, or that the law is just not worth following: according to the government accountability office (GAO) the administration's.
If, like me, you've ever wondered what it would be like to cuddle up on a drugged Glenn Beck's chest while he gurgled cryptic aphorisms about health care and compassion,.
From the NYT article on the home edition of the Merck/Meriel manual, which sounds like Gray's Anatomy meets DSM-IV meets Physician's Desk Reference for the insane world of domesticated animals: In its 1,345 pages, readers can find, among other things, the anatomy of a turtle;...
Bush vetoed S-Chip today. Again. As in, for the second time. Why? Well, here's what White House Spokesperson Dana Perino had to say:“This Congress failed to send the president legislation.
Krugman body slams Giuliani (and the msm's coverage of the candidate) today in his column. Feeling feisty, Krugman takes on Rudy's claim that American men have much higher prostate cancer.