Benkler on open access in internet open competition means better service cheaper

Key Provisions in the "Affordable Health Care for America Act"- http://bit.ly/2C4klr

Most understndable healthcare doc I've found: http://bit.ly/KTvDR

Stats on free market vs "socialized" medicine; interesting how US health outcomes jump when people hit medicare

According to the latest estimate of the carbon cuts offered by rich nations, the pledges fall well short of the reductions that climate scientists say are needed to avoid dangerous climate change.

Krugman

Besides being vile and stupid, however, the editorial was beside the point. Investor’s Business Daily would like you to believe that Obamacare would turn America into Britain — or, rather, a dystopian fantasy version of Britain. The screamers on talk radio and Fox News would have you believe that the plan is to turn America into the Soviet Union. But the truth is that the plans on the table would, roughly speaking, turn America into Switzerland — which may be occupied by lederhosen-wearing holey-cheese eaters, but wasn’t a socialist hellhole the last time I looked.