bsmall2May 12, 2025
> Although #Medicare has succeeded in providing access to health care for millions of older Americans and in reducing administrative costs relative to private insurance, it has not been able to contain the explosive medical price pressures that have been generated by the private sector. The rational solution would seem to be to extend social insurance for health care to the rest of the population, thereby eliminating enormous amounts of waste and placing global controls on overall spending...
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/035468.html
#usapol #DeanBaker #MarkWeisbrot
Social Security: The Phony Crisis, Introduction -- Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot

The introduction to Social Security: The Phony Crisis by Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot, authors of Social Security: The Phony Crisis. Also available on web site: online catalogs, secure online ordering, excerpts from new books. Sign up for email notification of new releases in your field.

bs2Sep 8, 2024
> "Walden is truly a global leader in worldwide movements for economic and social justice, and to break the iron rule that the most powerful people in high-income countries wield over the institutions of global governance, which they do to the detriment of the majority of the world,” CEPR Co-Director #MarkWeisbrot said. “And he’s long been a leading voice for justice, accountability, and democracy in the #Philippines, which is why he’s being targeted.”
https://cepr.net/press-release/cepr-condemns-politically-motivated-arrest-of-former-board-member-walden-bello-in-the-philippines/
#WaldenBello
CEPR Condemns Politically Motivated Arrest of Former Board Member Walden Bello in the Philippines

CEPR strongly condemns the arrest of its former board member Walden Bello in the Philippines by members of the Quezon city police, and calls for all charges to be dropped.

Center for Economic and Policy Research
bs2Aug 2, 2024
> #JimNaureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting wrote that Anderson’s article appeared “almost like a parody of corporate media coverage of an official enemy state.” Economist #MarkWeisbrot.. noted that Anderson wasn’t “letting commonly agreed-upon facts and numbers get in the way” of his.. diatribe against Chávez’s failures. Those criticisms remain independent from others who have observed his increasingly bizarre Twitter outbursts against critics.
https://nacla.org/blog/2013/3/15/venezuela-new-yorkers-jon-lee-anderson-fails-arithmetic 🧵
On Venezuela, The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson Fails at Arithmetic

NACLA