Tag Archives: health care

Slacktivist on the Current Contentions

August 18, 2009 – 11:02 pm

Slacktivist has been putting out some great posts on the shrillness of some of the opponents of health care reform: In The IndigNation, Fred Clark talks about “The National Indignation Convention” (!) an early 1960′s movement, similar to the shouting mobs showing up at public meetings on health care, but were convinced that the danger [...]

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No, its not malpractice…

August 11, 2009 – 10:13 pm

I’m just going to link Gawande’s oft-cited report in the New Yorker about the cost of medical care in Brownsville, Texas (which caps damages from medical malpractice) so I can have a short URL to hand out to people who still think malpractice is the main driver of the cost of medical care in the [...]

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