Why Elizabeth Warren’s health care proposal won’t work
Elizabeth Warren proposes a noble, feckless, and unsustainable expansion of the US health care system.
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Urine tests show America’s wealth being pissed away
Summary: Economist Ed Dolan points to an amazing example of our mad health care system at work. It is one of the least discussed of America’s most serious problems. This week I had a cardiovascular workup at a hospital. I got a physical exam, blood tests. chest x-ray, and treadmill EKG. The results were …
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Single payer healthcare is coming to America. It’s inevitable.
Summary: Conservatives’ bold propaganda have made Americans fear the health care systems of our peer nations, systems that produce equivalent care a half the cost (or less) or ours — but cover everybody. America’s march to universal coverage began with Medicare (1965) and Medicaid (1966). Obamacare expanded it, covering more people but at unsustainable cost. …
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What to expect from the Trump years, and why.
Summary: The media overflow with hysterical predictions about the next four years, but few well-grounded visions. Here is a brief look at  some of what we can expect, and why, and what these events reveal about ourselves. What makes America great? Great for whom? Investors have pushed US stock to near-record valuations (record valuations on …
See America’s income inequality grow during 1979-2011, a driver of Campaign 2016
Summary: To understand this election we must see the accumulated stresses which produced the insurgencies in both parties. Rising income inequality — “the hollowing out” of the middle class and rise of the 1% — is probably the biggest, yet still poorly understood (until recently conservatives denied it). This great study by one of our …
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