Comparisons of various health care reform bills:
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.
National Academies of Science ("America's Uninsured Crisis:
Consequences for Health and Health Care" (2009)):
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.
Why can't health care be a "free market" service? Why does the gov't
need to be involved at all?
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/
http://prescriptions.blogs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
Medicare is going bankrupt:
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/
What is driving premiums upward?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
http://views.washingtonpost.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/03/are-obamas-new-gop-health-ideas-any-good/36971/
Exemptions from antitrust laws protect insurance companies from competition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
http://www.examiner.net/news/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
The House just passed a repeal of these exemptions:
http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?
Basic overview of both Congress' and President's proposals:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.theatlantic.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/
Adverse selection in health care insurance (see esp box 22.1 on p. 231):
http://books.google.com/books?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
(scroll about halfway down Krugman's column for the relevant portion)
http://www.politico.com/
A 4-minute highlight reel of the recent "Health Care Summit":
http://prescriptions.blogs.
Some results from this summit:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
How much does the gov't already pay for medical bills, versus private insurers?
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.
Medical "rescission" of health insurance (dropping sick patients)
http://articles.latimes.com/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/demons-and-demonization/
A critical review of the GOP's proposals:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-
http://www.businessweek.com/
http://www.rollcall.com/news/
http://voices.washingtonpost.
Some insight from liberals about conservative criticisms of the bills:
http://voices.washingtonpost.
http://voices.washingtonpost.
A critical review of Dem proposals:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://www.juliansanchez.com/
http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.
Some of the interest groups lobbying on both sides of the current debate:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
PS: Here's a humorous video:
http://www.funnyordie.com/
And if you want some context from me, check out my health care posts.
