There’s a sequence of interesting posts about health-care on Assymetrical Information right now, but here’s a link to the last one with a succinct proposal:
Have the government pay for all health care expenditures above 15% of adjusted gross income, and cover 100% of health care expenditures by people living under 200% of the poverty line.
And […]

Not exactly public health advice, but I am not talking about public health. I am talking about Tsotsi.
Tsotsi is a great movie. It takes place in South Africa, and is acted by South Africans. It is not, however, about racism or politics, safari animals or music (although the soundtrack is excellent). If anything, it […]

This just in off the JHU newswire … Les Roberts, author of the infamous Iraqi death-toll article in Lancet (we wrote about it a few months ago here) is running for Congress in New York. Check out his official website, complete with blog, here.
It would be very valuable to have a trained public health […]