On Wednesday, September 9, 2009 while President Obama was addressing a joint session of Congress he was heckled by congressman Joe Wilson from South Carolina. At one point during the President’s speech Representative Wilson disagreed with what the President was saying and blurted out “You Lie”. The policy item under discussion was whether the proposed... »

It’s encouraging to see other sites out there focused on the same or similar work as this one. Starting today I’ve added a permanent page to this blog that will “warehouse” and showcase these sites as I find them. Feel free to contact me by comment or email if you find others worthy of... »

In an earlier article I used infant mortality and longevity as 2 indicators of healthiness of a population. Recently there has been some discussion over the infant mortality rate aspect of this measure. So I thought I’d revisit the infant mortality statistic. As you will shortly see it seems I reached a correct conclusion... »

The health care debate is the topic on many TV and Radio news and commentary shows and unfortunately many of them keep rehashing the same arguments and, to my mind at least, are not advancing the general discussion. One example comes from a recent ABC News “This Week” episode where the Right’s “Death Panels”... »

In an earlier article we examined how the US health care system fares in comparison to the world. This comparison was aimed squarely at free market statistics, namely supply and demand. Supply was measured by the number of doctors per capita and demand was measured by dollars of health care spending per capita. We... »

The website Recovery.org is an excellent site to track the status of the stimulus spending. Recovery.org is brought to us by Onvia.com and appears to be a public service tool that coincidentally also highlights the sort of services Onvia provides. The graph below was pulled from their website in late June/early July and so... »