Few pieces of legislation have been subject to as much confusion, deception, and outright lies as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). I suppose the confusion starts right with the name. Most people refer to it as “Obamacare” as if the law primarily sets up the government as the provider of medical care… Read More »
Back in Unit 2, I made the point that it’s the economic problem that gives rise to society’s need to have an organized economic system: In very broad terms, we (both as individuals and as a society), have to make four types of decisions over and over and over all the time. These four decisions… Read More »
On April 1, 2015 I’m presenting at the Area Agency on Aging 1-B sixth annual Judith J. Wahlberg Lecture. I’ll be taking another whack at these zombie ideas that Social Security and/or Medicare are unsustainable, that they’re going BANKRUPT, and … Continue reading →