Health Care Thoughts: Non-Compliant Patients Ask physicians and nurses about their biggest clinical problems and non-compliant patients will likely be near the top of the list. And why should we care? Because non-compliant patients are huge cost drivers. Ezekiel Emanuel (MD, PhD, NIH) estimates that one-third of U.S. health care costs are driven by diabetes, […]
by Mike Kimel I am not a Libertarian Because I Believe in Freedom and Property Rights, And I’d Like to Minimize Government Coercion, Part 2 This is a follow-up to my previous post on libertarian philosophy, the aftermath of which was a surprising amount of, well, let’s just call it assorted vigorously uncomplementary communication. (Shows […]
A post of mine on May 17 titled The Difference Between Defending DOMA and Defending Neo-Nazis and the ACA discussed a post on the Blog of Legal Times that summarized part of a lengthy article published that day on Daily Report Online. These websites and their respective hard-copy publications, Legal Times, based in New Jersey, […]
by Beverly Mann New wrinkles in the ACA litigation – Part II Okay, well, now y’all know from reading Part I that under the Constitution’s Article III requirement that plaintiffs in lawsuits have some “particularized” (and ya know what that means, from reading Part I) injury or be in imminent danger of suffering one, and […]
by Beverly Mann New wrinkles in the ACA litigation – Part I On May 23, the three-judge federal Fourth Circuit appellate panel that two weeks ago heard oral argument in the two cases in Virginia challenging the constitutionality of the ACA issued an order asking the parties to brief the question of whether a federal […]
by Beverly Mann Last week, one of the law blogs I read regularly mentioned a post from May 11 on a law blog read regularly by a lot of law geeks (but not by me) about the oral argument in those cases a day earlier. The blog is The Volokh Conspiracy. Its bloggers are prominent […]
by Mike Kimel I am not a Libertarian Because I Believe in Freedom and Property Rights, And I’d Like to Minimize Government Coercion I wandered over the Libertarian Party and I found their Platform. I’m sure there are a few items here and there with which some libertarians disagree, but in general, it seems to […]
by Mike Kimel Robert Waldmann’s “How to Solve Many Problems,” This Time with a Question Mark The other day I noted that the S&P 500 leads the economy. A few days before that, my colleague, Robert Waldmann suggested that perhaps it might make sense for the government to issue bonds and use the proceeds to […]