…is eligible, and the majority of Americans with insurance are covered by private insurers. Other countries have universal single-payer systems (with, as always, complicating details.) Canada and Australia both have…

…as it does in Canada. 3. It can use regulations and subsidies to corral private insurers into covering everyone, as it does in the Netherlands. All of these methods can…

…currently governor of the Bank of Canada. It would be a good choice. As the speeches at the link above note, Carney is no fool, which often seems rather more…

A few years ago—probably four, though maybe more—I was doing some research at SIBL when the National Sport of Canada came on the television screens. It wasn’t that I stopped…

One of the most notable things about ski trips to the States from Canada was that they offered “U.S. medical insurance”—a buy-in that cost around the same as a lift…

…five or ten minutes because the (Bell Canada based) buzzer system uses a different entry code than the normal. So I can safely say that the Canadian installation experience worked….

…them.) 2.Obama’s proposed chained-CPI cut would typically reduce benefits for 3 percent, and by as much as 6 percent for some recipients. 3.The White House’s decision to label this cut…

…also added the final two sentences. The post is a followup to a post from earlier Friday. I’ve also created an additional label: mainstream-journalism gimmickry. I’ve left the original rather…

…and since then, models have proliferated, transforming the name “Smith and Wesson .38” into a generic label for a particular style of gun, even clones that aren’t made by Smith…

…the right to set the tone of the dialogue by letting them label the current situation. We aren’t facing a “fiscal cliff”, he notes, but rather an “austerity bomb”. [The…