Salience and Subways


I use the Washington subway—the Metro—to commute from my home in the D.C. suburbs to my downtown office. The system has just approved a $109 million fare increase. But, in a tour de force of obfuscation, it has designed the hike so that few riders will have any idea what a given trip will cost.


This is, in part, [...]

A.M. Vitals: Medtronic Details $15.7 Million Paid to Doctors


Also: more money for bone scans in the health-care overhaul bill; a drug for premature ejaculation; the consequences of obesity.

ReachMD: 2.0 Tools and Healthcare


Web 2.0 tools have made the Web more interactive for everybody. But what is Health 2.0? Find out, with Matthew Holt, healthcare futurist, co-founder of the Health 2.0 conference and founder of The Health Care Blog, tells you why you…

Will you wash your hands of the lower classes if they continue to demand more of your money .?


Why is it when you visit among the lower classes you walk into a double wide and in it you find a 50 some odd inch television some electronic game system connected to it with hundreds of dollars of game accessories just lying on the floor . a rack of CD’s loaded with country music [...]

「妹の日記」ミドリカワ書房


Lyrics Naomi was sleeping in this hospital room until a while ago Naomi was living in this hospital room until a while ago She finished her long long battle with an incurable disease I wonder where she is, and what she’s doing now. Opening the bedside table drawer A yellow notebook… Naomi’s diary… Sorry, please [...]

DJ Duct Tape – Arguing With Idiots | Glenn Beck Contest Entry | Top 10 Finalist!


Thank you to everyone at the Glenn Beck Program and to all of the other finalists. This has been quite a ride and I can’t believe the great people I have met! I wrote and recorded the song and lyrics in less than a day, and had to rush the shooting because the contest didn’t [...]

The Power of Negotiated Prices


By MERRILL GOOZNER A lot of health care is wasted because it’s not very effective. David Leonhardt of the New York Times returned to that theme in a useful article in today’s paper. But when will economics writers with broad…

"Layoffs That Could Have Been Deferred…"


President Obama gave a speech to the American Medical Association on Monday. A significant portion of the speech concerned the state of health care in the United States.
What struck me…

Data-Driven Health Care: An Interview with Jerry Reeves, MD


An under-the-radar debate is occurring in health care between those who say data shows that practice variations across the land are “unwarranted” and those who maintain that such variation is inevitable given socioeconomic population differences and cost of practice differences…

Should We Open the VA to All Comers?


By MERRILL GOOZNER Merrill Goozner has been writing about economics and health care for many years. The former chief economics correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, Merrill has written for a long list of publications including the New York Times, The…