Reform Rodeo
Photo by David Monniaux
1a. Massachusetts: A blog post by Harold Pollock can be found here, discussing why 47 health policy experts have sent a letter urging the House to pass the Senate’s bill in the wake of Scott Brown’s upset victory.
1b. Interesting Poll of Brown Voters: As MoveOn.org’s poll reveals: “Nearly half (49%) of Obama voters who voted for Brown support the Senate health care bill or think it does not go far enough.”
2. Health Care Economics: David Herszenhorn at the New York Times discusses William J. Baumol’s theory of cost disease, and why it should give us pause in expecting too much from health care reform.
3. Health IT: Adrian Gropper M.D. describes the advantages of the OAuth system of linking electronic health record systems.
4. The Science Behind Reform: The NEJM has a short editorial describing the findings of a recent study that underscore the importance of lowering salt consumption; findings that associate reduced salt intake with public health benefits on the level of smoking cessation and weight reduction.
5. Individual Mandate Constitutionality Redux: At the O’Neill Institute, Mark Hall responds to the Constitutional argument that the individual mandate is unconstitutional because it regulates inactivity as opposed to activity.
6. Visualizing Health Care: Comments on a National Geographic piece apparently spurred National Geographic to discuss why they chose the plot on the top instead of the plot on the bottom.
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It appears marxism is alive and well here at health reform watch. How disgusting. I’ll never understand why the hard marxist left needs leaders (criminals in government) that lie to them, take their freedoms and property.
Good thing the hard marxist left is toxic to themselves, as we have seen over the past year. Americans have seen the crimes and lies of the hard left and have rejected them.
Americans want less government, honest government and reduced health care cost. Americans do not wish to give away their freedom to criminal marxists in government.
Dave Dude
Hello Dave,
Good to see you’re still up and about and fighting the good fight. As you might imagine, I seldom (if ever) agree with you; dispute your characterizations for the most part ( I do, however, think you’re right when you say that Americans want “honest government and reduced health care cost”); and at times wonder who in your estimation is left (or right as the case may be) that is qualified to govern. But having said all that, hope this finds you well.
mjr