One Fred Jones, in the comments to an earlier post on health care, makes the following claim: The real problem is not insurance, or lack of it, but the skyrocketing costs of the underlying healthcare itself. Why isn’t young Klein concerned with why doctors are pretty much guaranteed to become millionaires in the US and [...]
I don’t want to spend my day debating health care with Dick Armey, especially since, as noted previously, I don’t really know what I’m talking about. So I’ll just let young Klein the ever-popular young collectivist E. Klein do the hard work on Armey’s claim that “health care regulations leave us worse off by an [...]
The family went and had breakfast with the frogs this morning at the American Museum of Natural History. You couldn’t actually eat in the room with the frogs, but we did get to see some of the frogs being fed a nutritious (if probably not locavorean) meal of fruit flies and crickets. The photos are [...]
I’ve been hesitant to post much about health-care reform in this blog, because compared with people like Maggie Mahar and Jonathan Cohn and Tyler Cowen and Brad DeLong and the younger of two perfectly good Kleins, I just don’t know very much about health-care economics. But I’ve learned from reading the exchange between Joe Klein [...]
