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Economics, Politics / deficits, Federal Budget, health care reform, Obamacare, tax reform, Trumpcare /

Healthcare: One More Thing …

May 7, 2017

Given the almost universally negative criticism being heaped upon the latest version of Trumpcare and the likely blow-back it will unleash on GOP members of Congress in the 2018 election, it is reasonable to question why Republican leadership was so enthusiastic to legislate it into being. It certainly looks like a major policy disaster, and it […]

Politics / health care, Obamacare, Republicans, Trumpcare /

Trumpcare

May 5, 2017

Just a quick note on yesterday’s vote in the House to repeal and replace Obamacare: It won’t pass the Senate That means another version will emerge from the Senate The two versions will then have to be “reconciled” and voted on again The current House version will eliminate coverage for about 20 million people It will […]

Economics / agent based modeling, Behavioral Economics, economic theory, evolutionary economics, heuristics /

Limits

May 5, 2017

I don’t understand why people get upset when I say that economics is a waste of time. I suppose it’s because I don’t make a clear enough difference between economics as a general topic and economics as a formal, mainstream, body of knowledge. It’s the latter that is a waste of time. The former is […]