Affordability of Long-Term Care Systems in Times of Rapid Population Ageing
As the private long-term care industry in the US comes under more visible stress, a 32-nation look at the success of public programs
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
Book Review: The Many Bounties of Collaboration in Nature
What would make a critical mass of Americans, marinating in a rugged individualist culture, want to become their neighbors’ keepers?
Read more...Taxpayers Spend 22% More Per Patient to Support Medicare Advantage – The Private Alternative to Medicare That Promised to Cost Less
How Medicare Advantage, with less coverage than traditional Medicare via gatekeeping and thin networks, is a bad deal for taxpayers too.
Read more...Trump’s Inflation-Stoking 25% Mexico and Canada Tariff Scheme
Trump’s latest tariff threat is quickly getting a lot of well-warranted criticism.
Read more...The Wars Come Home
Silicon Valley looks to bring tech used in conflicts abroad back to American shores.
Read more...Neglecting Health Care May Have Cost Democrats the Election
Health care inequality and the Covid-19 pandemic’s toll put Democrats at a structural disadvantage in the 2024 election.
Read more...“Entropy and Information Control: the Key to Understanding How to Mount the Fightback Against Trump and Other Populists”
A reader critical thinking exercise, in form of yet another attack on populism dressed in the pseudo-science of trying to link it to entropy.
Read more...A Post-Election Reflection on Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
On how the shame resulting from the loss of seen-as-meaningful and well-paid work led many to reject the rule of their PMC betters.
Read more...How the Wall Street Journal Blew the Story of the Democrats and Inflation
The firehose of affluent consumption continues to drive inflation, not the stimulus package
Read more...Requiem for an Empire
While historian Alfred McCoy made an early and accurate call on the erosion of the US empire, his current readings are a mixed bag.
Read more...Is Realignment the Shape of US Politics to Come?
Trump and his loyalists intend to deliver major changes to US politics. But how realistic is that promise?
Read more...Wall Street Journal Show How Medicare Advantage Plans Restrict Medical Services to Sicker Seniors, Leading to Switching to Traditional Medicare
The Wall Street Journal shows how Medicare Advantage plans curb care to sick seniors, leading many to switch to traditional Medicare
Read more...The New Economy and the Tariffs and Tax Breaks to Launch It
Analyses of planned Trump tariffs differ somewhat on the impact, but all find them to be negative. Will the Supremes save Trump from himself?
Read more...Why the Enthusiasm for Mass Deportation, A Hard and Likely Largely Losing Way to Deal with Illegal Immigration?
Why the idea of mass deportation is set to become the “Defund the Police” of the right: vague but appealingly absolute, and unworkable.
Read more...Germany, Trump, and Walking the Trans-Atlantic Plank
Is government collapse a comeuppance for the German elite, or is everything right on schedule for the transatlantic plutocrats?
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