Robert Samuelson reports (HT: Greg Mankiw):
t is widely assumed that health care, like most aspects of American life, shamefully shortchanges the poor. This is less true than it seems. Economist Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution recently discovered this astonishing data: on average, annual health spending per person — from all private and government sources [...]
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Health Care Equality
Posted in Equality, Health, Politics, economics, tagged Health Care on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Progress on Health Care
Posted in Health, Politics, tagged Health Care, insurance, media on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Census Bureau reports that the number of people lacking health insurance dropped by more than one million last year. I await the flood of mainstream media coverage of this excellent news!
Texas’s Best Barbeque
Posted in Health, tagged BBQ on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Texas Monthly lists the top fifty barbeque places in Texas. The top five are all within an hour’s drive of my house. I went to this one last night. Yum! And they don’t even list this one, but this one gets an honorable mention.
UPDATE: My daughter brought home some wonderful brisket [...]
Marx: A Pain in the ***?
Posted in Health, History, tagged Marx on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Was Karl Marx alienated because he suffered from hidradenitis suppurativa?
Testing your Reaction Time
Posted in Health, tagged reaction time on May 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m an ambling armadillo who needs a cup of coffee. What are you?
Another Ice Age?
Posted in Health, tagged global cooling, global warming on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Phil Chapman presents evidence that we’re headed for global cooling—something that’s already happened over the past year—with a nontrivial possibility of another ice age.
As he observes, significant cooling could be catastrophic. I’ve wondered why the global warming crowd is so convinced (a) that global warming is occurring now and will continue, (b) that human activity [...]
“Give Me 50!”
Posted in Health, tagged exercise, Health on March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The New York Times writes about the virtues of push-ups:
Based on national averages, a 40-year-old woman should be able to do 16 push-ups and a man the same age should be able to do 27. By the age of 60, those numbers drop to 17 for men and 6 for women. Those numbers are [...]
