Ezra Klein

I was at Cato earlier today to talk health care. Some folks might be interested in the notes from the chat. People with too much time on their hands can watch the video: Why did I think I’d be here to point out the system’s flaws while a conservative defended its outcomes? What sense does […]

Thinking about it a little more, one aspect of Andrew’s post is, theoretically, falsifiable: If you have the kind of expectations that many Brits have for their healthcare system, it is not hard to feel satisfied. The Brits are very happy with their dentists as well. And there is a cultural aspect here – Brits […]

Without getting into the arithmetic of exactly when the Chinese economy will become bigger than the American economy, I’d suggest that the raw measure of size is probably a bad substitute for the question we’re actually interested in, which is economic, and thus geopolitical, power. If the Chinese economy were, today, the same size as […]

It’s hard to respond to Andrew Sullivan on health care because his points are getting increasingly idiosyncratic: Andrew is not saying the British gets worse care, and he’s not saying they are more likely to die from heart disease or kidney failure, and he’s not saying they spend more, and he’s expressly denying the relevance […]

One of the few cabinet appointment that hasn’t yet been is Secretary of Agriculture. Indeed, all we know is that it won’t be anyone who was floated early on: Iowa governor Tom Vilsack is out of the running, as is subsidy baron Collin Peterson. Accordingly, a crew of 88 foodies, including such names as Michael […]

The wit and wisdom of Robert Gates.

Charlie Rangel vs. The New York Times. In general, I like this sort of format. I don’t understand when publications publish letters accusing them of serious factual violations and offer no reply. Is the author right, and the publication wrong? Or is the author wrong, and the publication is promoting their letter to look open-minded? […]

Noah Pollack starts this post by saying “I am far from knowledgeable about health care,” and then gets right down to the busy of proving it, using the oft-discredited prostate cancer stats to argue that “survival rates for many diseases are higher in America than in western countries with socialized health care systems.” We’ve been […]

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Gershom Gorenberg writes in: A socialized medicine story, after reading your post on Sullivan: 20 years ago my son was born, two months early, weighing kilo and a half, emergency C-section to save my wife’s life. A kilo-and-a-half baby hardly fills your hand when you pick him up. He lived in a plastic box, my […]