Machiavellian Machinations

Paul Krugman had an editorial in today's New York Times that, in a few words, summarized and articulated what I have always known about post-Reagan Republicans and their willingness to bring the country to the verge of total collapse. Not to mention their hypocrisy of speaking against government expansion and expanding it since Reagan.

Public v. Private

This article from the Associated Press discusses the possible scenarios of the competition that will spring up with a public health insurance option in the arena.

If health insurance companies think they're so good and that the government plan will be so bad, why are they afraid? If they deliver, people who have the means will go to them. Unless they continue to be the mountebanks they already are, of course, on which there is no doubt.

Meanwhile, California nurses, those who fight in the trenches of the war we call healthcare, react and predict that insurance premiums will increase by 94% by 2020, unless measures are taken by the government in the form of a public option in order to curb that.

Econ 101

Paul Krugman educates on why the GDP can rise while unemployment also rises. Graphs within.

More here on what he terms an economic 'purgatory.'

World Statistics Made Fun & Easy

Hans Rosling, a Swedish professor presents statistics on world development, wealth, and population. Very informative and educational.