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Posts I Won’t Write

{ Posted on Dec 07 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : 2012 Presidential, All, Angry Bear, Education, health care, immigration, privatization, Republican brand, Uncategorized
Buce sends us to Der Spiegel's description of Barack Obama's potential 2012 opponents ("You Think This is Bad?")John Kay in today's FT (no link) tells us why letting economists pontificate about finance is a Mug's Game. The mugging being of ...Read More »

DC Appellate Court upholds constitutionality of Obamacare

{ Posted on Nov 09 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : ACA litigation, All, Angry Bear, health care, Obamacare, Uncategorized
Talking Points Memo reminds us that there are still ongoing legal issues regarding our healthcare system: A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — comprised of two judges appointed by Republican presidents and one by a Democrat ...Read More »

Prostate Cancer Advance, and Europeans Free Riding on American Research

{ Posted on Sep 26 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, foreign country health, health care, Research, socialized medicine, Uncategorized
by Mike KimelThere's a story going around in the news about a new prostate cancer drug. Here's press release:A life-extending new drug to treat patients with advanced prostate cancer, developed by The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and ...Read More »

Four Notes

{ Posted on May 09 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care, Mankiw, politics, Uncategorized
For Mother's Day, as it were, xkcd presents The Lawrence H. Summers Memorial History of Math and Science.Buce at Underbelly does this, probably saving me the trouble of a post. (Consider this a SlothBear moment.)The problem I want Drek the ...Read More »

Town Hall Meetings on the Ryan Budget Raise Concerns

{ Posted on Apr 29 2011 by Linda Beale }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, GOP Budget Proposal, health care, House Budget Proposal, medicaid, medicare, Medicare vouchers, Paul Ryan, Renee Ellmers, social security, State Taxes, taxes on pensions, town hall meetings, Uncategorized
Various congressional representatives held town hall meetings recently, and the news channels and print media were abuzz with the lively give-and-take, including shouting matches. See, e.g., House G.O.P. Members Face Voter Anger Over Budget, New York Times, Apr. 26, 2011; ...Read More »

Paying for health care

{ Posted on Apr 10 2011 by James Hamilton }
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Categories : Econbrowser, health care, Money, Uncategorized
Representative Paul Ryan's (R-WI) plan to address the U.S. federal deficit is an opportunity to reflect on fundamental questions of what we're trying to buy and how much we're willing to spend when it comes to the role of the ...Read More »

Medical Marijuana Stocks

{ Posted on Mar 16 2011 by Z }
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Categories : All, AMNG, CANA, health care, Investing, Investing blog, medical marijuana, Stocks, Uncategorized
Every day it seems I see a new headline about medical marijuana and the on-going political discussion going on in the United States. While last decade’s battleground was the West Coast, particularly California, the new battleground is right in ...Read More »

Health Care FYI

{ Posted on Feb 17 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care, innovation, Research, Uncategorized
The quality of the posts at Disruptive Women in Health Care(r) varies widely, but their special issues bring out the best and leave most of the chaff behind.Their latest eBook is Innovation Nation: Recognizing the Benefits of Innovation in Health ...Read More »

Laurence Tribe on the ACA … and the Supreme Court justices

{ Posted on Feb 08 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : ACA, All, Angry Bear, health care, Supreme court, Uncategorized
by Beverly MannLaurence Tribe on the ACA … and the Supreme Court justicesArgggh. In rereading my comment from yesterday to Bruce’s “Health Care ACA Act: Who does the Roberts Court Work For?” post, I realized that there’s a major part ...Read More »

Health Care ACA Act: Who does the Roberts Court Work For?

{ Posted on Feb 06 2011 by Bruce Webb }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care, Supreme court, Uncategorized
It is an article of faith among many on the Left that the answer is easy: the majority on the Roberts Court is in the tank for the Republican Party. And within certain limits and with qualifications that is my ...Read More »
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