Hits & Misses – 2009/3/25
Massachusetts is now spending one-third more than the national average.
Pfizer paid for bogus studies to promote Bextra.
Anticancer nano-gene is 80,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
Michael Kinsley on why the Wyeth v. Levine decision is very bad law.
Kinsley is normally wrong about almost everything. On this subject, he is surprisingly right.
Whatever you may think about the Massachussetts Health Plan (and it’s not all bad), there is no mechanism there for controlling health care costs.
Kinsley is more than right. This is the best article I have seen on this wrongly decided case.
Isn’t Massachusetts a potential model for Obama’s health reform?
Massachusetts is a model for the dangers of wholesale reform in any complex system, and an argument in favor of incrementalism so long as the increments are substantive.
A logical first increment might be the Venn diagram intersection of conservative and liberal proposals. Not a “compromise,” but an Occam’s razor approach.
…in other words, something that neither side has reason to oppose, because they aren’t painted into any corners. But I suppose clean legislation is an oxymoron.