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the unintended consequences of having dumb people write healthcare legislation

A lovely article in the Boston Globe yesterday points out that, given a choice, people here in Massachusetts are not as intellectually-challenged as the politicians who write healthcare legislation. Color me encouraged. It seems that some not-very-public-spirited people would rather pay the (lower) monthly penalty, instead of a (much higher) monthly insurance premium, and then, [...]

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Yeah, THIS is what we need

So Massachusetts is going to have its own public state law school . I can hear your cheers from here. YAY! I’m not going to start this off by noting that Shakespeare was entirely correct (Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV), because that would be somewhat cliche. Oh, wait. Let’s think about this for a [...]

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