…thrives on corrupted, unaudited accounts cannot and will not change. A colleague of yours on the Deficit Commission, Senator Tom Coburn, R-OK, has written to you recommending the urgently required…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care: Policy Confusion The Obama administrative, and especially the Department of Health and Human Services, is pushing the notion of accountable care organizations (ACOs)…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Social Media: Is the Boss a Bleep? The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) forced a settlement on American Medical Response of Connecticut Inc. after AMR…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care: Cameras in the Delivery Room? In the old days the delivery of a baby was a medical procedure and dad was relegated to…

…Physical therapists The worst job in health care – Director of Nurses for a nursing home. (Note: I have been 2, 3,and 4 at various times) Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt…

Begin with a Really Stupid Assumption: Assume Tom Friedman is correct. Not about the brilliance of cab drivers, or the flatness of the Earth, or even that AGW is the…

Facts or Fallacies Part III: Combinations, Murder and the Primordial Lump by Tom Walker (Sandwichman at Ecological Headstand) In Part I, I compared the statistical fact that non-farm employment was…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt The Pain of Economic Change Michigan is the only state in the union showing a net negative population trend in the recent census report, and…

…really loves human suffering and wasting human capital. UPDATE: Tom Levenson at Balloon Juice went out and found some numbers that—to no one’s surprise, I trust—don’t support Douthat’s Delusion either….

by Tom Walker (Sandwichman at Ecological Headstand) Facts or Fallacies? Part II: In which Paul Krugman takes his lumps and eats them too while Jamie Galbraith runs afoul of the…