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06.11.15
What if I told you that while one government agency is tasked with reducing the prevalence of smoking in the US, another is making decisions that aim to keep cigarettes cheap and accessible? Well, this bizarre outcome is exactly what happens when antitrust law is rigidly applied to the tobacco industry. This week, with approval […]
11.02.09
By Tim Jost
Congress is not writing on a clean slate in enacting health care financing reform legislation. We already have, of course, massive federal health care programs: Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Hundreds of pages of the bills Congress is considering are consumed by amendments to the statutes governing these programs. The legislation […]
10.22.09
For the most part, I have found the congressional debate over health insurance reform largely dispiriting and depressing. But every now and then, an event occurs that temporarily adds a bit of levity to the process. While all too infrequent, sometimes the political posturing is instructive on many levels. The release of the health insurance […]
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