Since I’m stuck at work on a Friday afternoon, I’m going to keep beating this horse. Yesterday’s New York Times has an article about what the Democrats would like to accomplish on the health care front if they take back Congress. At the top of their list is trying fix the abhorrent Medicare prescription drug […]

The New York Times reports on the proliferation of Neurometrix, a popular diagnostic test given by primary care physicians to detect carpal tunnel syndrome and other nerve damage. This is the perfect example of the perverse incentives created by the marriage of technological advances and our wildly illogical system for provider reimbursement. Rather than diagnosing […]

I really wish the New York Times would stop printing articles apologizing for the sad state of American health care on a weekly basis. Today’s, by economist Tyler Cowen, is a particularly egregious example.
Cowen attempts to rationalize our astronomical health care spending with the standard conservative talking point that America is a world leader in […]