I could write a book about why competition among private insurers is bad for consumers, gives you less choice, worse health care, and costs you more money, but let me start with one simple example that everybody can grasp, which I think is very...

I'm trying to put together a talk for next Monday evening in Connecticut about a subject that would actually be simple but is complicated only because there are some seriously false assumptions deeply embedded in our political culture. The outline is...

Another busy day (I had a meeting all morning that went an hour over time, three papers to write, two students needing recommendations, another student needing a paper critiqued, two proposals to write -- you get the idea). Anyway, a couple of links...

Why don't you write more about your own research? So say the masses. Well, partly it's because of the weird rules about discussing stuff that hasn't been published yet. So, while this may not be the greatest thing since The Revolutions of the...

I have written quite a lot about how inappropriate and misleading is the massive media obsession with the "novel" (not really) H1N1 influenza strain that's going around. It's misleading because influenza, even if we are having a somewhat worse flu...