QualityCounts

A hard look at the third Presidential debate through the prism of health care reform.

Urban legend has it that when he was in kindergarten, a very precocious Barack Obama wrote an essay in which he first revealed his intention to become President of the United States.

Some members of his senior staff were not so precocious. This is a light-hearted but revealing story of one future staffer’s ability to plan ahead, even when all he could do was string together an apparently disconnected set of drawings when he was asked to show and tell what he wanted to be when he grew up.

A careful examination of the financial and health care implications of the radical McCain-Palin health care reform package, with some insights about how fact check organizations continue to run behind the curve.

I’ve spent a good portion of my life working to measure and improve health care quality, so I was very interested to hear what Sarah Palin had to say about the McCain-Palin solution to our health care crisis. It seems that she and her running mate have developed a perfect solution not only for our too costly health care system, but also for all those other financial crises with which our nation is beset. It’s called the budget neutral tax credit, and it puts financial derivatives to shame.