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Thursday, May 18, 2017

The Physics of the Front Handspring

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I’ve been working on my front handspring for a while now. After repeated rounds of getting it, backsliding, improving, and backsliding aga...
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Monday, May 15, 2017

Singapore and the Puchasing Power Parity Adjustment

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Singapore's gdp per capita is about $52,000 in 2015, pretty much the same as in the United States. But adjusted for purchasing power pa...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Who are you trying to subsidize? At whose expense? And why?

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Unfortunately, sometimes discussions of healthcare get pointlessly gender-baited and identity-politicked. As a general principle, you shoul...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

“Single payer, duh!” (Drops mic, walks off stage)

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Sometimes discussions about healthcare get derailed by unserious commentary. My favorite is the assertion that a single payer healthcare sy...
Monday, May 8, 2017

Insure Before the Die is Cast, Not After

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Discussions of health policy drive me crazy because people get the basics wrong. Even the framing of the problem is usually wrong. Most ...
Sunday, May 7, 2017

Exaggerating the "Market Failure" in Health Insurance

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Here is an interesting little trick, which became crystal clear to me after reading a recent post by David Henderson. It is a trick that pu...
Saturday, May 6, 2017

More on Propublica’s Machine Bias Article

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I wrote previously about a really biased Propublica article here . The gist of the Propublica piece was that a statistical model that predic...
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