Gordon's Notes

Charlie LeDuff has  written an essay on the state of the worst bits of Detroit . If you're feeling sturdy, you can follow it with a  Rob...

I got stung this time. I was a mark . Darn it. My excuse is that this scam was a subtle one. I'd classify it as an occult emergent fraud...

Anthem, so someone wrote, puts the Hell in Health Care . Today's particular slice of Hades is a lovely example of how  fraud evolves whe...

My corporate health care insurance is administered by Anthem . Tonight we tried to find out if a particular physician is in their cover...

It seems pretty clear that if you want better quality healthcare, or better teaching, then you should pay professionals for the results they...

In one paragraph, Gail Collins summarizes an important issue with basing teacher compensation on student performance: Gail Collins - Teacher...

If computer technology had developed like health care technologies home computers would cost millions. Everyone would have one, but the nati...

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Winston Churchill, 1942 ...

You may have heard that the Senate passed a health care bill. It is likely that it will be further amended by the House, and of course there...

I'm waiting for week's end to write mine, but I'll be working from these early commentaries: Economist Brad DeLong: The Curious ...

Under the current system of incentives, only demonic health insurance companies can prosper… Demons And Demonization - Paul Krugman Blo...

Scott (Dilbert) Adams can’t imagine any way American will survive its 21st century budget crisis .   This betrays a certain lack of hist...

Sometimes, the good guys lose. We lost this one. We're no closer to universal good enough care than we were four years ago. Maybe furth...

Odds are something like the Senate bill passed today will become law. I didn't hope for much, but I did have one selfish desire. I hope...

A combination of flawed institutional practices , the nihilistic devastation of the Party of Beck and Limbaugh , and the political, economic...

This explains a lot. Gail Collins - Sorry, Senator Kerry - NYTimes.com ... my favorite explanation comes from Jonathan Chait of The New Rep...

Walecia Conrad has written a pretty good summary of the problems of price discovery in medical care services . She mentions several approach...

I almost never blog about anything that's work related. For example, if you visit my blog page you'll see a "label cloud" ...

It's time again to play spin the insurance wheel . This year my employer is offering only a "HRA" (Consumer directed) plan. Wh...

Joseph Paduda despairs …. … I'm really disappointed with the Republicans. They are supposed to be the budget hawks, but instead the...