Blog Reactions
Marginal Revolution: Assorted links
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles: links for 2009-11-01
| RT @RyanNewYork Ezra Klein: why the Public Option's plans won't be cheaper than private insurance. Smart take. http://bit.ly/3aYIOe #P2 #HCR 10/30/2009 |
Assorted links
Marginal Revolution —
1. How the public option really will work. 2. Why progress is difficult in economic science. 3. California real per capita spending has gone up. 4. "Economists" category on Jeopardy. 5. Via Chris F. Masse, new Avatar trailer. 6. "What I've been reading," as if it were April Fool's (and here for Halloween).
links for 2009-11-01
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Brad DeLong: Okay! Okay! Uncle! Uncle!
Ezra Klein - Will the public plan have higher premiums than private insurance?
Life as We know it
Lawrance G. Lux —
There are really some people who have the wrong idea about the public option. The fact remains that if We are talking about universal health care, with no one can be denied Coverage. Study that comment for a moment, and One can decide that refusal of Coverage should be limited only to Cosmetic Care; and then only if it is truly not debilitating. I have a Suggestion which no one will like: Refuse the Public Option to All, except Those who have previously been turned down by a private health provider, while the Public Option must determine that the medical procedures denied were ...
Reform: Looking at the Glass Half-Full, Part 2
Angry Bear —
... Thus, his words have had a powerful influence both in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere. Virtually no one has questioned his assumptions. At the end of October even the Washington Post’s estimable Ezra Klein quoted Elmendorf Will The Public Plan Have Higher Premiums? concluding that the public plan will be expensive. ...
