Victor Fuchs on health reform

I've never met Victor Fuchs, but I've admired and learned from his writings for years. His article in this week's JAMA on "...

Paranoid Style in the ACA Dissent

My wife and I are in Vermont with two of our grandchildren visiting, so I've only just now finished reading the 193 page Supreme Court d...

Six More States Join the Anti-Mandate Suit

The Associated Press reported today that Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Ohio, Wisconsin and Wyoming, all with Republican Attorneys General, have join...

Health Care and the Campaign

A New York Times editorial on "Health Care and the Campaign" summarizes nicely the lies, distortions and disinformation about hea...

Ethics, Politics, and Health Care Reform (2)

So how can we understand the virulent backlash against the health reform legislation? I see two distinctive but inseparable sources for the ...

Crunch Time in Health Care Reform

We're in the end game of health care reform. As I said in my last post , we're seeing real debate in the Senate, but - unfortunately...

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

In the course of trying to understand the eruption of rage against the non-existent "death panels" in the emerging health reform b...