StickWithANose

For the past six years, my employeer based insurance provider was United Health. Being the healthy, sleek stick that I be I haven’t had to use it very often, but when I did go to a doctor United was always a pain in the ass. United does everything that it can to not pay. My [...]

Nate Silver brings some clarity to the polls on public support for health care reform. Here are five essential elements for an accurate poll:
1. Make clear that the ‘public option’ refers unambiguously to a type of health insurance, and not the actual provision of health care services by the government.
2. Make clear that by “public”, [...]

Disciplinarity is academic speak for a process by which individuals become so immersed in a particular intellectual pursuit or academic discipline that they are incapable of seeing the most obvious truths. Or to put it in plain English… If your only tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail. For scholars at the forefront [...]