That promised piece on healthcare will probably surface next week. In the meantime, here’s some related reading that will almost certainly be referenced: The Populist calls for A National Health Care Plan for All, citing the expense of insurance — even for rather mediocre coverage; the New York Times tells us about Health Care as if Costs Don’t Matter,, which tells us that “a big reason for that cost is the explosion of expensive, medically questionable care…,” implying that if we could stop “medically questionable” treatments, we could bring down costs for everyone (wasn’t this the problem HSAs were supposed to address?); Ezra Klein brings us commentary on that article; and finally the thoughts of a genuine Professor of Economics on the problem, Brad DeLong gives us “An Unrealistic, Impractical, Utopian Plan for Dealing with the Health Care Opportunity”. Memo to the world, the Chinese character for “crisis” includes the characters for “danger” and “opportunity” like the the word “shelf” contains “elf.”
I know I usually close with lots of strange but interesting things that have cluttered up my browser tabs, but instead I’d like to send you over to an item I wrote for Central Sanity entitled Stuff to Act Upon. If you’d like somebody else’s ideas of stuff to act upon, you can start with the BlogHers Act Week One Round-up.
Have a great weekend, everyone!