Yeah, but how does publishing it make it better?

Social solidarity versus individual responsibility is I think the greatest difference in mindset between here and home. It's interestin...

Rationing in healthcare is complex. The myth of unrationed healthcare in the US is pervasive. Like the rest of the world healthcare in the...

A distrust of what is called ‘socialized medicine’ is the principal argument made by the right against any solutions to US health care issue...

The unstated point here of course is that there is mindset of the “deserving” and “undeserving” which equates material wealth with virtue. A...

I once commented on the irony of parts of the pro-life movement apparently believing that life stops at birth – combining a fanatical devoti...

We all have myths we hold onto, to defend us from the full horror of existence: the good guy wins in the end, virtue is its own reward, Engl...

Meeting Senator Durbin (see the other blog) he asked us what we were here for, we said to study US healthcare, and he responded along the li...

One of the biggest differences I have noted in the US healthcare system is one which is not immediately obvious on casual inspection, but es...

As I have alluded to already, the concept of moral hazard, or more properly the need to make sure that individuals have an incentive to mini...

First sighting of health policy issues in the mid-term. Barak Obama (Dem senator from Illinois), twice, on tonight's Countdown.