Tag: 53rd

Ezra Klein today said this: To put this a bit more sharply, if I could construct a system in which insurers spent 90 percent of every premium dollar on medical care, never discriminated against another sick applicant, began exerting real pressure for providers to bring down costs, vastly simplified their billing systems, made it easier […]

Reporters Without Borders has released their annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index and the United States has now fallen 53rd place: The United States (53rd) has fallen nine places since last year, after being in 17th position in the first year of the Index, in 2002. Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated […]