Round Up

Showdown with the public sector coming.

Cost sharing in US healthcare. I don't agree with all of this editorial, certainly not the assertion that the reason we spend more is limited to 1) our exceptional medicine and 2) because we encourage overuse. Those are reasons, but there are many more. However, the editorial does highlight one of the myths that continually circulates in discussions of US health care- that US consumers have higher out of pocket costs than people in other countries.

Felix Salmon has the economic statistic of the decade.

Awesome.

The 20 Most Important Philosophers of All Time. Observations: Surprised Aristotle does not nab the top spot, but at least it was close. Embarrassed that I did not know who Frege or Leibniz are. Descartes might be a little high, Aquinas a little low.