This list of healthcare links is a work in progress. My idea is to have a central place where one can get up to speed with various relevant issues related to the healthcare reform debate. While I am generally pro-reform, I have tried to make this list more balanced in terms of reasoned arguments from across the spectrum.
I expect to be adding to this list and amending it as time continues. If you have any recommendations, send them to feedback at creditwritedowns dot com.
Edward Harrison
My Top Five (plus one)
- Healthcare Napkins All – Dan Roam
- Nicholas Kristof – Health Care Fit for Animals – NYTimes.com
- Charles Krauthammer – Why Obamacare Is Sinking – washingtonpost.com
- T.R. Reid — Five Myths About Health Care in the Rest of the World – washingtonpost.com
- Paul Krugman – Obama’s Trust Problem – NYTimes.com
- Bill Moyers Journal – Money-Driven Medicine – PBS
Official Reform Position
- Why We Need Health Care Reform – Barack Obama, NYTimes.com
- A conversation with Peter Orszag on Charlie Rose
- Christina Romer: The Economic Case for Health Care Reform
- Gary Locke: Fixing Health Care Is Good for Business – WSJ.com
Conservative criticism
- Populist Right Rising – Patrick Buchanan
- Charles Krauthammer – Why Obamacare Is Sinking – washingtonpost.com
- John Mackey: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare – WSJ.com
- Whole Foods Boycott on Facebook Swells to 22,000 Users
- Obama Goes Postal, Lands in Dead-Letter Office: Caroline Baum – Bloomberg.com
- David Ignatius – Time to Follow the Doctor’s Orders on Health Care – washingtonpost.com
- Obama’s Doctor Knocks ObamaCare – Forbes.com
- Clive Crook – Obama took wrong turn on health
Liberal Criticism
- Bob Herbert – This Is Reform? – NYTimes.com
- Paul Krugman – Obama’s Trust Problem – NYTimes.com
- Obama’s teflon melting as outrage over healthcare heats up – Marshall Auerback
- Bob Herbert – Voices of Anxiety – NYTimes.com
- Obama’s Health Care Mistake? – NY Times
- Robert Reich’s Blog: How Tough is Our President?
- Our Fuzzy President Is About To Come Into Focus – Dan Froomkin
- Drawing key lessons from the failure of Obamacare | Ted Rall
- Thomas Frank: Health Care and the Soul of the Democratic Party – WSJ.com
Healthcare Insurance
- Healthcare Napkins All – Dan Roam
- The Hottest Places in Hell are Reserved for Those Who, in Times of Moral Crisis, Maintain a Neutrality
- Nicholas Kristof – Health Care Fit for Animals – NYTimes.com
- You Do Not Have Health Insurance – James Kwak
- Unconscionable Math – Taunter Media
- Bill Moyers Journal – Money-Driven Medicine – PBS
- How American Health Care Killed My Father – The Atlantic
- How to Check an Insurer’s Complaint Record – Kiplinger.com
- How to check your insurer’s complaint record – Consumerist
Real Healthcare Anecdotes
- Falling through the health care cracks – Lynn Parramore
- Slump Spreads to Health Care as Michigan Loses Auto Jobs – WSJ
- Nicholas Kristof – Until Medical Bills Do Us Part – NYTimes.com
Support for Reform
- Why the health care debate is so important regardless of one’s view of the “public option” – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
- Economist’s View: Swiftboating Health Care Reform
- Matt Taibbi: Health Care Reform: Sick and Wrong : Rolling Stone
- American Health Care Once Again – Gary Becker
- Reforming American health care: Heading for the emergency room | The Economist
- A Strong Safety Net Encourages Healthy Risk-Taking | The American Prospect
Politics of Healthcare
- Status-Quo Anxiety : The New Yorker – James Surowiecki
- Fareed Zakaria – When Only a Crisis Brings Reforms – washingtonpost.com
- False ‘Death Panel’ Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots – NYTimes.com
- Drew Westen – What We Talk About When We Talk About Health Care – washingtonpost.com
- Twenty-six Lies About H.R. 3200 | FactCheck.org
Public Option
- Economist’s View: “The Public Option as a Signal”
- Economist’s View: “A Public Option Isn’t a Curse or a Cure”
- Economist’s View: “Public Option versus Co-ops: The Market Test”
- The inevitable socialisation of health care financing – Willem Buiter
- Was a Public Plan Ever Really in the Cards? : CJR
Rationing
Lobbyists
- Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar – Politico
- White House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost – NYTimes.com
Seniors
- FiveThirtyEight: Seniors Skeptical on Health Care Spending
- Have Seniors Really Paid for Their Medicare Benefits? « The Enterprise Blog
- FiveThirtyEight: Why Are Senior Citizens Crying “Socialism” at Town Halls?
History of legislation
Doctors and Hospitals
- Hospital Savings – Salaries for Doctors, Not Fees – NYTimes.com
- Bill Moyers Journal – Money-Driven Medicine – PBS
Foreign Healthcare Systems
- T.R. Reid — Five Myths About Health Care in the Rest of the World – washingtonpost.com
- Bronte Capital: Health Care Reform and single payer – an Australian perspective
- A Canadian doctor diagnoses U.S. healthcare – Los Angeles Times
- My whopping $32 emergency room visit in the land of socialized medicine
- The Swiss Menace – Paul Krugman
- ‘Cruel and neglectful’ care of one million NHS patients exposed – Telegraph
- Ara Darzi and Tom Kibasi – In Defense of Britain’s Health System – washingtonpost.com
- On why I can’t get in to see my doctor – James Fallows
- Economist’s View: From 1983: Health Care Reform in Canada
My Own Posts
- Obama: knowing when to be an asshole
- What real comprehensive healthcare reform looks like
- Obama and health care: Wasting political capital
- The purpose of health care reform
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