hile Hillary Clinton has made statements in the past in support of single-payer health care, she has never proposed it. Even in 1993, when she…
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
For one in five Americans, just having medical insurance isn't enough to forestall the damaging consequences of the nation's for-profit healthcare system. A comprehensive new…
The more expensive it is, the better it must be. That’s how people used to think about health-care costs. As has become apparent in recent…
The latest dilemma facing economists is why "unequivocally good" low oil prices haven't sparked excuberant consumer spending across America. We have discussed the simple (though…
illary Clinton’s recent op-ed in The New York Times, “How I’d Rein In Wall Street,” was intended to reassure nervous Democrats who fear she is still in thrall…
For reasons hard to fathom, the Republicans seem to have made up their minds: they will divide, degrade and secede from the Union. Turn on…
The Republican primary looks like a poorly-made reality TV series--but unfortunately, it's real. It's even more unfortunate that contrary to popular belief, one of those…
A couple of weeks ago President Obama mocked Republicans who are “down on America,” and reinforced his message by doing a pretty good Grumpy Cat…
Just ten days ago we described the latest unintended (we hope) consequence of the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare, when Colorado's largest nonprofit co-op health insurer…
Except for maybe the Affordable Care Act, nothing gets Republican politicians fired up like Iran. In the first GOP debate alone, Scott Walker promised that he’d…
Jack Rasmus and guest, Eric Laursen, discuss the current condition of social security programs in the US today, on this month’s 80th anniversary of the…
President Obama's supporters are quick to tout his record as one of tremendous success, especially his "reform" of health care, but that is largely because…