The politics of health care

Health care is NOT complicated at least politically speaking. Over the past 7 to 8 years, people in a few states have grown increasingly dependent on Medicaid/CHIP and large ACA subsidies.  Correlate those states with Senators opposed to repeal of…

Money laundering

The main problem now for Trump and his family is that any major (or minor) real estate deal (at any time, even long before Trump was POTUS) involving Russian big wigs and anything Trump might be called “money laundering” by…

DACA is cruel

DACA is terrible public policy. Really cruel. Keep some good ones and kick the rest out? Who thought of that? Let anyone stay, then we have to let everyone stay … and really everyone in. Nothing else makes any logical,…

Health care is not complicated

Health care might be complicated biologically speaking, but payments and insurance raise simple questions. (1)  If you get really sick or injured, will your friends, neighbors and other citizens pay your bills? Should they pay them?  Could they even afford…