Weighing in (at great length) on the debate between the Edwards and Obama campaigns over whether health insurance should be mandatory, Maggie Mahar makes a nice clear case for why if you want affordable health insurance to be available to everybody then you have to require that everybody buys it: If we want community rating, [...]
There’s a major business battle brewing in Congress that’s been getting hardly any mainstream press coverage (well, here’s something, but it took me a while to find it). On one side are the nation’s four big railroads, which have been operating at close to capacity and making a lot of money lately. On the other [...]
