It's the time in the political season to make way too much of the impact a vice president can have on the presidential contest.
So I hope you don't mind if I extend that amusing parlor sport into the arena of healthcare reform and consider how how Joe Biden's original proposal for healthcare reform compares to Barack Obama's.
If... Read more
There's some peculiar numerology going in the presidential candidates' health reform plans.
John McCain proposes that every American receive a $2,500 tax credit ($5,000 for families) to help them afford health insurance bought in the private market.
Barack Obama says his healthcare plan will save the average American family... Read more
You don't need excellent hearing to know the presidential candidates are turning up the volume on the rhetoric machines.
Judged on soundbites describing the other candidate's health care plans, John McCain will deregulate the health insurance industry entirely, freeing mendacious insurers to offer expensive insurance only to the... Read more
One of the fun parlor games of Election '08 is to look at Internet data and figure out what they mean.
The answer may be "nothing," of course.
But let's play along and look at the latest Hitwise data on popular search terms.
HitWise,
a company that tracks Internet traffic, counted the search words that
sent people to... Read more
Over half of Americans think the next U.S. President should support. . .access to electronic medical records.
Compared to gas prices, the economy and the war in Iraq, this is, needless to say, a fairly minor issue. Even within the issue of health care reform, access to EMRs, as digital medical records are known, it's small... Read more
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