nytimes.com - 8/16/2009
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WE clearly don’t need any more distractions from the two main issues of health care reform : how to deal with our large uninsured population and how to make the entire system more cost effective. So, for now, let’s ignore the shouted rhetoric about whether “death panels” want to kill off ...
online.wsj.com - 8/9/2009
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online.wsj.com —
THEODORE DALRYMPLE In the last few years, I
have had the opportunity to compare the human and...
veterinary health services of Great Britain, and on the whole it is better to be a dog. As a British dog, you get to choose (through an intermediary, I ...
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Health-Care Reform: Do Animals or People Get Better Care?
nytimes.com - 8/23/2009
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nytimes.com —
TWO burning questions are at the center of
America’s health care debate. First, should employers be required...
to pay for their employees’ health insurance? And second, should there be a “public option” that competes with private insurance? Answers ...
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Op-Ed Contributors - A Public Option That Works
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com - 8/15/2009
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Thaler on the Public Option
Greg Mankiw's Blog —
Here is Richard Thaler on the public option in the healthcare debate. He ends up about where I was in June when I wrote on this topic, but I think he is a bit too quick to "assume that the public option does have to break even and can’t make any special deals." I believe that many advocates and many opponents of the public option are making the opposite assumption and, as a result, see the public option as a route toward a single-payer system. (They disagree, however, whether that is good or bad.) That is why the public option is a bigger issue in this debate than Thaler ...
Assorted links
Marginal Revolution —
1. Gerald Dworkin on G.A. Cohen. 2. Possible furloughs for UC professors. 3. Critique of libertarianism, built around Monty Python quotations. 4. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and his predictions. 5. Richard Thaler on the public plan. 6. Sarah Lyell on the NHS.
"A Public Option Isn't a Curse or a Cure"
Economist's View —
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Public Option Isn’t a Curse, or a Cure, by Richard Thaler, Commentary, NY Times:
We clearly don’t need any more distractions from the two main issues of health
care reform: how to deal with our large uninsured population and how to make the
entire system more cost effective. ...[O]ne big distraction remains: the
question of whether a “public option” should be part of the health care
solution. To me, the issue is a red herring, and is getting in the way of
genuine reform. ...
10 Links: Monday Edition
The Big Picture —
... time:
• For FDIC, Friday Means Failures (The Deal) Each Friday night, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. preps its SWAT teams of regulators to fan out and secure more banks. No one other than FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair and her staff know for certain who’s next after 72 banks failed this year, almost 3 times as many as last year’s 25. see also BB&T Acquires Colonial as Regulators Close Five U.S. Lenders (Bloomberg)
• Behavioral Economist Richard Thaler on the Health Care debate (NYT) ...
The Public Plan, Again
Greg Mankiw's Blog —
The possibility of including a public plan in the health reform bill is on the table again. Here are a few viewpoints on the topic: Robert Samuelson, Paul Krugman, Richard Thaler, and me. ...
Related: what's bad about the public option?, public option health care
links for 2009-08-16
economistsview.typepad.com 8/16/2009 —
The Public Option - A Distraction in the Health Care Debate - NYTimes.com
California's universities in trouble - The Economist
Why We Need Health Care Reform - Barack Obama
More on deficits and interest rates (wonkish) - Paul Krugman
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"Public Option versus “Co-ops”: The Market Test"
economistsview.typepad.com 8/18/2009 — What do prediction and financial markets have to say about the prospect of
dropping the public option and replacing it with health care co-ops? Here's
Arin Dube
with a
follow-up to this post with an answer you probably won't like:
Public ...
Dropping the 'public option' could insure some stocks' health —
BloggingStocks
Regardless of how you feel about a public health insurance option offered by the government, interest at the policy level seems to be waning recently. If Democrats drop the idea of a public option as a component of health care reform, health insurance companies could benefit. The way I see it, ...
How Tough Is Our President? —
Daily Markets
Latest word from the White House is that the President still supports a public option but is also standing by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s remark last weekend that a public insurance plan is “not the essential element” of health-care reform. So ...
Tuesday's Daily News —
Club for Growth
THE DAILY NEWS
Key Dems Say Public Option is Essential - Kornblut and Bacon, Wash Post
Liberals Revolt Over Public Option - Martin and Brown, The Politico
The Public Option Goes Over - Wall Street Journal Editorial
Watching A Bad Idea Implode - IBD Editorial
About Those Health Care ...
Public Option, Cooperatives or a Cooperative —
Angry Bear
Robert Waldmann can't resist writing about health care reform. The actual debate seems very focused on the public option -- will the minority of Americans who have access to the new insurance exchanges have the opportunity to buy health insurance from the US government. Notably this is the ...
"The Public Option as a Signal" —
Economist's View
More from Paul Krugman on the public option:
The public option as a signal, by Paul Krugman : Look, it is possible to have
universal care without a public option; Switzerland does. But there are some
good reasons for the prominence of the public option in our debate.
One is ...
Odds For A Public Option in 2009 Tank —
Bespoke Investment Group
Those following the US health care debate know that comments from the White House this weekend dealt a blow to the "public option" aspect of reform. At the end of July, we posted the odds that traders on Intrade were putting on a "public option" getting signed into law by the end of 2009. After ...
Monday's Daily News —
Club for Growth
THE DAILY NEWS
Carol Shea-Porker: Lover of Earmarks - Union Leader Editorial
Public Health Care Option May Be Out - Ceci Connolly, Washington Post
Real Health Care Reform - Arnold Kling, EconLog
Spiders of D.C. Spin Their Webs - Waterbury Republican-American Editorial
Debating the ...
Co-ops: A ‘Public Option’ By Another Name —
Cato @ Liberty
Politico reports that the so-called “public option” provision could be dropped from the highly controversial health care bill currently being debated throughout the country:
President Barack Obama and his top aides are signaling that they’re prepared to drop a government insurance ...
Stock Picks: AET Up; LOW Down (Market Movers) —
SmartMoney.com
Health-Care Plan Falters, Giving Insurers a Boost
Word that the Obama administration may be backing away from its health-care reform plans and scrapping the so-called public option (a government-run alternative to private insurance) sent investors flocking to insurance stocks Monday. Shares ...
Public Private Competition in Garbage Collection —
Economist's View
The public option for health care appears to be dead , so this is a bit late, but I keep
hearing that there are no examples of public-private competition, let alone
successful ones. But there are examples of this, and they have been successful.
We are used to the argument that the private ...
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