I thought about trying to comment on Hillary's health care plan, but after reading what Ezra has to say, I think its probably best to let him handle the duties.... [More]
September 17, 2007
September 19, 2007
Moral Hazards
Ezra: Moral hazard is a pretty simple idea: The less you bear the consequences of your actions, the more reckless you'll be. And it's often applied to health care: The... [More]
September 20, 2007
$2 Trilion
That's the projections for the cost of the president's new "Korea model" for Iraq. And that's on top of the $500 billion we have already spent. Josh Marshall has more... [More]
September 26, 2007
Meanwhile, Here At Home...
SCHIP reauthorization falls a few dozens votes short of the number needed to override Bush's promised veto. For the sake of some sort of bizarre ideological purity, Bush is going... [More]
September 27, 2007
The Myth of Moral Hazards
I noticed this in today's NYT article about the GM-UAW deal, too. Kevin Drum explains the NYT's nonsense here. I begin to answer his question over on the blog for... [More]
Bad Bridges
Andrew Sullivan notes a recent study that demonstrates a negative correlation between level of congressional pork and the number obsolete bridges within a district. This result may seem counter-intuitive at... [More]
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