Calculated Risk: Health Care Spending and PCE

These statistics, termed National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA), are compiled with the goal of measuring the total amount spent in the United States to purchase health care goods and services during the year. …

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Calculated Risk: First-time Home Buyer Frenzy

In addition $8000 to the Federal tax credit, there are some state programs, as a nexample from Newsday.com: NYS rolls out tax credit for first-time home buyers – but most of the frenzy is being driven by the Federal Tax credit. …

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Paul Krugman's Health Care Fantasies » The Foundry

The latest government figures available, from 2007 (see Table 12), show that 87.8 cents of every private health insurance premium dollar went to personal health care bills. And that remaining 12.2 cents

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Paul Krugman surprised by CBO report on health care: a kind of …

Paul Krugman joined the round table discussion on ABC’s THIS WEEK and highlighted the misleading CBO report on the costs of health care and he singled out Doug Elmendorf as the culprit.. Krugman: I think I should say something about …

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