Out of My Mind

Expensive, inefficient but everything's available for a price. My favorite example that MSM misses: Lost in the repeated harping of the number of people uninsured is a mystery: How much care and treatment is deferred longer than it should be or simply never received because that carriers, pinching pennies, refuse to approve it? Is the quality of carrier weakened here because new doctors educated in the states can't be assured of earning enough to pay for their schooling soon enough?

Anyway: Two essential pieces from two subscription-required sources. The Journal shows how a hospital operates with its principal's profitability its primary goal and an elaboration on that situation from Krugman (the Times obviously leaving the story to the Journal).