We are today going to look at three highly correlated symptoms to see if buried within the concern “uninsured”, there may just be a solution to the major part of our health care crisis wriggling its way out into the public eye.
Author Archives: Matt Holt
Clear As Mud
The White House in its wisdom has decided that one of the initiatives on which it’s going to squander what’s left of its dwindling domestic political capital is getting America’s health care providers to reveal their prices and report their quality.
A Tale of Two Underwriters
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times, it is the age of wisdom, it is the age of foolishness. …Well not much wisdom actually, but I thought that after all the health care theory I’ve laid down on you at Spot-on in the last few months, I ought to explain how a poor schmuck in the individual market goes about getting health insurance, and I used a schmuck I know exceedingly well as a guinea pig—just for your casual enlightenment.
Universal health care passes in America!
Massachusetts passed a universal health care initiative yesterday based on an individual mandate. Yup, that means that citizens will need to show that they have health insurance! And a rational centrist politician can say “I’ve solved the uninsurance problem without a tax increase”, as he grins to the cameras.

