A ‘ginky’ play and spirited ‘Bearial’: Big Game traditions live on
为准备第 127 届年度大赛，斯坦福大学的学生（无论新老）齐心协力，保持传统。大赛前一周的活动包括 Gaieties、Bearial 和 Axe Committee 在 White Plaza 的露营活动。《斯坦福日报》首次刊登了《一场‘滑稽’的比赛和充满活力的‘Bearial’：大赛传统继续传承》一文。
STATEMENT: House Budget Committee, “Reexamining the economic costs of debt”, Nov 20, 2019
作者：L. Randall Wray 本博客基于我向美国众议院提供的证词。我的书面声明将发表在国会记录中（利维经济研究所也有版本：http://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/statement-of-senior-scholar-l-randall-wray-to-the-house-budget-committee。...继续阅读→
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: Report and related documents (incl video) analyzing the impact of Republican Presidential Candidate policies on the deficit/debt Today in TIE: Austin on the basis of value driven health insurance and Marsha Gold’s NEJM piece on private insurance Medicare o
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CBO: Estimate of ARRA impact in third quarter, 2011 Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin on why the ACA is not enough, and he analyzes Medicare’s decision to cover Provenge, Aaron takes a look at potential Avastin savings in Medicare, while Kevin grades the media in covering that story, while Don notes the
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Third Way: Health Policy failsafe for the Super Committee Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin looks at Reinhard’s latest on all payer and tells the AMA not to worry about competitive bidding, while Don pans a new Medicaid federal/state cost share formula and follows up with a bit more detail, Aaron worries
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CBO: Elmendorf testifies on economic growth & employment for 2012-13 before Senate Budget committee GAO: Medicaid: New Formula Would Provide Automatic , Targeted Assistance to States during Econ Downturns Kaiser: Super Committee ‘wish list’ from ~ 30 groups Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin travels to Pl
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CDC: Winnable battles, Tobacco Use (many links) Bloomberg law: New & improved SCOTUS blog OMB: Ltr from Jacob Lew to Harry Reid on FEMA/continuing budget resolution AEI: The benefits and limitations of Income Tax reform CBO: Some context for thinking about deficit reduction, federal revenues House B
The IOM confirms that vaccines are safe
The IOM has released a report entitled, Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality: The committee finds that evidence convincingly supports a causal relationship between some vaccines and some adverse events—such as MMR, varicella zoster, influenza, hepatitis B, meningococcal, and tetanus-c
I’m not the only one who thinks the doc fix ain’t deficit reducing material
仍然对我的断言，即修复SGR并不是真正减少赤字。 David Nanther, in a very amusing Politico piece on how the super committee might lower health care spending, agrees with me: OPTION: Fix the Medicare physician payment formula What it does: Rewrites the current Sustainable Growth Rate formula, which has an enormous […]The po
