The American healthcare racket

If you haven’t yet read Steven Brill’s comprehensive investigative piece for TIME Magazine about why healthcare costs are so high, it’s well worth taking the time to digest the 80-plus pages. The article is an indictment of our for-profit healthcare...

The economics of single payer health care

The following interview with Massachusetts economist Gerald Friedman provides a great explanation of how a single payer plan would be much more economically efficient than our current for-profit system. Also, read Friedman’s excellent article for the web site...