a new health policy post ...

... is up on The Huffington Post.  In it I interview UC Berkeley professor Jacob Hacker on his health reform proposal (which I like).  The full Q and A is at my health policy blog, The Sentinel Effect.  Excerpt from the HuffPo item:

"Professor Hacker's proposal, Health Care for America, is based on two simple principles: First, that both the employer-based private system and publicly-funded Medicare are essentially working for their members. Second, that every uninsured American (or legal resident) should be able to buy into a Medicare-like public program at affordable rates, with need-based subsidies. In theory, the Hacker plan increases coverage while lowering costs in several ways: by bringing more people into a system whose costs are rising more slowly; by helping the government increase the scope and effectiveness of its design changes; by encouraging private plans to keep costs low: and by increasing the public system's leverage and reach."

And there you have it ...

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The Shanghai gabfest has *got* to at least propose a trio (or more) of strategies how US and Chinese lower-downs can collaborate on the environmental crusade.