http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/02/prescription_dr.html In 2003 Congress created a prescription-drug benefit program for persons enrolled in Medicare. It was estimated at the time that the program would cost the government $40 billion a year; a recent re-estimation, adding $30 billion a year, New York... en-us http://childhealth.typepad.com/maternal_child_health/2005/03/medicaid_mandat.html The New America Foundation proposes that America shift to universal health insurance by requiring that everyone purchase it, the way most states now require the purchasing of auto insurance. http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/002239.shtml The phobia of conservatives against taxes is often bizarre, since they'll impose the equivalent on the population, but do anything... http://hispanicpundit.com/archives/2005/02/28/posner-on-medicare/ Richard A. Posner, Professor of Law at the University Of Chicago and federal judge, writes: As a matter of economic principle (and I think social justice as well), Medicare should be abolished. Then the principal government medical-payment program w... http://rxnotes.blogspot.com/2005/02/becker-posner-discuss-medicare.html In fact both seem to misstate the prescription drug benefit as defined in the final rules published earlier this year. Specifically, the role that beneficiary cost-sharing and plays at different levels of annual drug expense. In fact, much of the new... http://www.TheGlitteringEye.com/archives/000737.html It's a busy morning in the blogosphere and I've got a lot to show you. Here's what's caught my eye this morning: Ann Althouse transcribes Pat Buchanan's critique of the Bush approach to the War on Terror from Meet the... http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/02/becker_and_posn.html Richard Posner writes, As a matter of economic principle (and I think social justice as well), Medicare should be abolished....