I haven't posted much on Stayin' Alive on weekends lately, but due to enforced hibernation you get a bonus post today. As I said last time, we don't buy medical services -- or have our insurance pay for them -- because we enjoy having our livers...

Listen up, ye Sons of Liberty! Markets are not natural phenomena, or forces of nature. Markets are social constructions -- institutions created by humans, maintained by humans, shaped and controlled by humans. All markets are regulated. In complex...

You are here. Whoops, no you aren't. We used to think so, but the earth is not at the center of the universe after all. Until Copernicus came along and published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543, astronomers had to reconcile their...

Now I hope that I've demonstrated the simple proposition that we are paying twice as much for medical services as comparable societies, and getting worse health outcomes. To our shame, we aren't bearing the burden of our collective failure equally:...

Not! You'll hear a lot of people say that the United States has the best health care system in the world. There must be other reasons why we don't match up well on life expectancy and other indicators of population health. Some will go so far as to...