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Not for Polite Company: Hawaii Employees, Brand Name Drugs, and Status Quo Bias
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Not for Polite Company. A Blog on politics, policy, religion, spirituality, and a lot of random things. Sunday, August 16, 2009. Hawaii Employees, Brand Name Drugs, and Status Quo Bias. Has a worthwhile story about the State Employees Drug plans. The article essentially says that for cost savings measures various things have ocurred, many of which have angered state employees. This is not any way for a rational market to act. I sort of think that the structure of this new plan with regard to this one...
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Not for Polite Company: The Breakdown of Civility Again
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Not for Polite Company. A Blog on politics, policy, religion, spirituality, and a lot of random things. Friday, August 14, 2009. The Breakdown of Civility Again. It was only a matter of time before health reform went crazy. As Steven Pearlstein. Said in his column:. Health reform is a test of whether this country can function once again as a civil society - whether we can trust ourselves to embrace the big, important changes that require everyone to give up something in order to make everyone better off.
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Not for Polite Company: Weird times for the Red Sox
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Not for Polite Company. A Blog on politics, policy, religion, spirituality, and a lot of random things. Saturday, August 29, 2009. Weird times for the Red Sox. So, it seems as though I occasionally need to get my Red Sox feelings out. So, today I write about two weird occurances over the last two days. First was Thursday's game. Who on earth would have thought Nick Green would pitch. Here are some photos of the event. Then last night, rain turned the game into a sloppy mess. Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise.
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Not for Polite Company: Oh, these Red Sox
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Not for Polite Company. A Blog on politics, policy, religion, spirituality, and a lot of random things. Sunday, August 16, 2009. Oh, these Red Sox. I became a Sox fan in the early 2000s, before 2003 when they almost won the ALCS and before 2004 when they won the World Series (which I really never expected). And meanwhile, it is interesting. Our shortstop mess is really complicated as the Globe. Stated the other day. Although I am hopeful as it does give us some flexibility. Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise.
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Not for Polite Company: The Life and Death of the Public Option
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Not for Polite Company. A Blog on politics, policy, religion, spirituality, and a lot of random things. Monday, August 17, 2009. The Life and Death of the Public Option. A lot of people seem to have their hands up in arms about the recent Administration positions on the Public Option stemming from the Sunday morning babble. However, like so much of the debate, I think this is a matter of more heat than light. The story really comes from this. As well as this Washington Post. However, both Jon Cohn. Yet, ...
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Not for Polite Company: Misinformation on health care
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Not for Polite Company. A Blog on politics, policy, religion, spirituality, and a lot of random things. Thursday, August 13, 2009. Misinformation on health care. Our problem with the health care debate of course is a matter of huge misinformation. I am getting annoyed about this too. Indeed, it seems as though we Americans have managed to hold contradictory positions. Take for example Nate Silver's graphic here. We Americans seem to want to have our cake and eat it too. We want lower taxes, but do no...
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Not for Polite Company: Trying to Simplify Health Care
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Not for Polite Company. A Blog on politics, policy, religion, spirituality, and a lot of random things. Monday, August 17, 2009. Trying to Simplify Health Care. The various blogs I read have talked about these, so I'm going to do one myself for my friends too. The first is the fine Washington Post. Health care cheat sheet. It is a major simplification, but it outlines exactly what is at stake, and seeks to reduce the heat and show the light. And Nick Beaudrot in particular). How simple can you make it?
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Not for Polite Company: Evolution and Religion
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Not for Polite Company. A Blog on politics, policy, religion, spirituality, and a lot of random things. Sunday, August 23, 2009. Has a great Op-Ed by Robert Wright. At the New America Foundation regarding evolution and religion, a large debate that is often very complex and fraught with emotions. It is well worth reading in full. One should note that the piece is difficult and highly nuanced though. I bring good news! Wright makes an excellent point on how we attribute things. Both science and religi...
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Not for Polite Company: An Interesting Take from the Right
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Not for Polite Company. A Blog on politics, policy, religion, spirituality, and a lot of random things. Sunday, August 9, 2009. An Interesting Take from the Right. I will freely admit that I am a moderate leftist. I tend to want compromise, consensus, and reasoned debate with passion, but not the insanity that we are seeing now. I fear the breakdown of civility and civil society. He writes in the bulk of his post:. Not a good outcome. Even worse will be the way this fight is won: basically by convincing ...
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Not for Polite Company: NY Times Op-Ed, and Pushing on everything
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Not for Polite Company. A Blog on politics, policy, religion, spirituality, and a lot of random things. Thursday, August 13, 2009. NY Times Op-Ed, and Pushing on everything. In this morning's New York Times. Four people wrote an Op-Ed. All are doctors. All are very familiar with the health care debate. They are Atul Gawande of New Yorker. McAllen, Texas fame; Mark McClellan, Bush's FDA and CMS head as well as the brother of Bush's press secretary Scott; Elliot Fisher of Dartmouth Atlas. Let C = Total Cost.
