Tag Archives: Healthcare

Starting Here: The Law of Unintended Consequences and Medical Care in America

Remember the joke about the drunken Irish man who wakes up in a ditch and asks a passer-by how to get to Dublin?  “It’s best not to start from here,” the stranger replies.

The ditch we’d rather not be in as ...Read more

The Medicare Football

Charles Schultz’s oft-revisited storyline is a useful parable for analyzing some of the politics of healthcare reform today.   Consider Lucy to be government proponents of various healthcare bills and plans; Charlie Brown, some concerned citizens; and the football, those various ...Read more