Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt The Un-foreclosure What could be worse than a foreclosure? An Un-foreclosure (HT: Columbus Dispatch) also known as a dropped foreclosure or a bank walkaway. Although exact…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care: Religious, Gender and Cultural Issues The Muslim population in the U.S. is now about 7 million, some having been here many generations and…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care: The New, New Thing Hits a Snag The feds are starting to push “accountable care organizations” (ACOs) as a means of improving care…

…PRWatch.org (discussing the coalition of conservative groups supporting deregulation, including Heritage Foundation and Tom DeLay), Republican Candidate Seeks Return of De-Regulation , Newark Democrat Examiner, Sept. 30, 2010 (discussing NJ…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care: Reinhardt thinks about (health) accounting Uwe Reinhardt (Princeton) is one of the world’s preeminent health care economists. In a NYT piece he makes…

Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care: book recommendation Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee I was able to spend some time with…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care: Comparative Effectiveness Research, Gender and Emotion A key cost bending feature of PPACA (Obamacare) is comparative effectiveness research (see http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/cer/index.html). This research is…

From Tom Dispatch a quiz: With President Obama’s announced July 2011 drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan in mind, the Pentagon has already: a. Begun organizing an orderly early 2011…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt HEALTH CARE: Obama Administration Gets Tough With Insurers DHHS Secretary Sebelius has lambasted the private health insurance industry in a letter to the industry’s trade…

…stopped working there (coincidentally) around the time Tom was born. Indeed, the renovation of the Navy Yard has been an American Success Story (driven by a Norwegian shipbuilding firm and…