…favors experiments that could improve the quality of medical care and hold down costs. AB: Kip Sullivan; “’value-based payment‘ emerged in the 2000s as the label for all methods of…

…of the supernatural, but there’s no magic involved with resurgent oil and gas company triumphalism, which arises now from money, power, and the wholesale unwillingness or incapacity of governments, some…

…business, someone checks the “informed delivery” app on their phone, a hand uses a computer mouse to buy postage and affix a label to a package, a young girl slides…

…for cutting that budget item (which they would undoubtedly label “redundant” and “wasteful” if it hadn’t been cut). With the Obama Administration outspending all prior Administrations while adding to the…

…Santorum once didn’t have much money and he has memories of a coal-miner grandfather. Is that enough to create ‘bona fides’ for his views on how we should manage the…

…helpful to enumerate the major economic functions any health system must perform: Producing health-care goods and services. Financing health care, which involves extracting money from households (which ultimately pay for…

by Linda Beale Barney Frank and the need for a risk-based bank fee That post about the McCain-Paul environmental devastation and revenue decimation bill (somehow mistakenly given the label of…

…in itself explains why they don’t understand the aims of Progressive Taxation. Label it how you like, the academic discipline that emerged from England in the 18th and 19th century…

…to GE exec John Rice: “If this bill is enacted into law it would benefit many GE businesses.” So, his reasoning is, because GE sees money in liberal policy (clean…

by Bruce Webb (A contest with no prizes, AB doesn’t have fundraisers or sell t-shirts and is lucky if ad money keeps the servers on. And this is just a…