Killing Jobs and Making Us Sick
By JOE NOCERA
“In January, Mr. Obama signed a food safety law that provides broad new authority to the Food and Drug Administration,” wrote Robert Pear in Friday’s Times, in an article about the Congressional appropriations mess. But House Republicans, he added, had voted “to cut the agency’s budget.”
Well, yes, in a nutshell, that is the sad story of the food safety law — the first major change in how the government regulates food safety in over 70 years. But the way the Republicans have dealt with its funding represents more than appropriations problems. It also represents the way they’ve allowed their unyielding antitax, antispend ideology to get in the way of common sense — and the common good.
The Role of Prices in Health Care Spending
By UWE E. REINHARDTUwe E. Reinhardt is an economics professor at Princeton. He has some financial interests in the health care field.
The term “health care” evokes different images in people’s minds. To patients who find a miraculous cure, health care may be almost sacred. For physicians, nurses and other health care professionals it is a compassionate human activity. To hard-nosed economists, health care represents just another exchange of favors embedded in a wider market economy that consists of exchanging favors.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/the-role-of-prices-in-health-care-spending/?scp=2&sq=uwe%20e%20reinhardt&st=cse
Let’s Talk About Death
By PETER CATAPANOThe Thread is an in-depth look at how major news and controversies are being debated across the online spectrum.
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As medical science has proven, death is hard to avoid. But it was especially hard this week.
No Job, No Insurance, No Health Care
Workers who lose their jobs in the economic downturn typically suffer a double whammy: they lose not only their incomes but their employer-based health insurance as well. Millions are forced to forgo the medical care that they cannot pay for.
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