Our Moral Panic Over Opioids Is Killing People
Why has opioid addiction been such a uniquely American disaster?
Category: Health Care
Hookworm, Pellagra and COVID: Diseases of Dysfunction
For many influential Southerners, the spread of COVID is less worrying than the spread of democracy.
Don’t let Sessions harsh your buzz
If the Idiocrats in the Trump administration wanted to dent the marijuana business, it would take a carefully planned campaign, coordinated with sympathetic state level officials and executed with great care and discretion. That’s not how these people operate.
I hope Republicans pass Graham-Cassidy
By passing this bill, Republicans would face the consequences at the ballot box before anyone gets killed by their stupidity. If you want to see universal health care someday, and you want to see Republicans gutted in the 2018 mid-terms, Graham-Cassidy is an ironic gift.
There is no free market in health care
There is no free market for health care. You cannot craft a free market for health care. Conditions under which people need health care inherently destroy the prerequisites for a market. It is impossible to build a system that will deliver effective health care without recognizing the limitations of unregulated markets.
Federalism is your friend
Collapsing federal power presents states like California with an opportunity. California has not enacted single payer health care for one over-arching reason – their decision to cede leadership to the federal government. A collapse of federal power may reinvigorate state efforts to craft and refine smart public policy. In same way Massachusetts inspired the ACA, a new wave of state innovations may spawn an era of policy innovation that could break us out of decades of quagmire. In chaos, there is opportunity. If Democrats ever again want to lead in Washington, let them prove that they can lead in California.