- “Ailing Market jeweler struggles without health insurance“, from the Seattle Times.
- “Going Dutch: Life after the public option” in the New Republic: “[O]ne tiny country has managed to build a popular and successful universal health care program based entirely on private insurance. That country is the Netherlands, which several years ago overhauled its health care system and achieved most of the goals the liberal reform movement holds dear: near-universal coverage, affordable insurance, and quality health care.”
- “Five capitalist democracies and how they do it” [“it” of course being health care] from PBS Frontline. See also the related graphs and discussion of the major types of system.
- Princeton health economist Uwe Reinhardt on the German health care model.
- Explaining the ‘Exchange’: A Primer.
- “Momentum on Climate Pact Is Elusive” say the NY Times: “The world leaders who met at the United Nations to discuss climate change on Tuesday are faced with an intricate challenge: building momentum for an international climate treaty at a time when global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years.”
- The NY Times editorial board says the death penalty is too expensive.
- “U.S. Job Seekers Exceed Openings by Record Ratio” in the NYT.
- “How I Became a Keynesian” by law and economics guru Richard Posner.
- “More Cows, More Milk, but More Headaches” from the NYT. What are the market implications of a new technology that allows dairy farmers to sex select for (more valuable) female calves?
- The elbow bump, approved by the World Health Organization.
- “Vietnam Finds Itself Vulnerable if Sea Rises“
- “Ovens on Feet Beckon Germans to Bratwurst“. Who knew there was so much competition in the market for hot dogs?
- “Oil Industry Sets a Brisk Pace of New Discoveries“. At least someone’s having a good year. Too bad it’s not helping the planet.
- Timothy Egan on “The Way We Die Now“.
- “Review Says No Net Loss for Some in Scheme“. What’s a fair way to divvy up the assets that Bernie Madoff had left at the end? It brings cake-cutting to mind.
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