Racing to the bottom on health coverage

Why “allowing health insurance to be sold across state lines” is not nearly as good an idea as it might sound.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-health-insurance-plan-would-start-a-race-to-the-bottom/2017/03/02/ad6e2466-ff8f-11e6-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html?utm_term=.98c6e03bf1e4

Republican Health Plans Have Winners And Losers, Just Like Obamacare

Great article on the tradeoffs involved in any health insurance coverage strategy. (Yes, Donald, it is complicated.)

 

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republican-health-plans-have-winners-and-losers-just-like-obamacare/

The Trump Show

Post columnist Marc Fisher:  President Trump wants to put on a show. Governing matters less.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/24/president-trump-wants-to-put-on-a-show-governing-matters-less/?utm_term=.d7c325333db5

#139 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow – Carole King (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8KlYc0xG80

 

If someone co-writes a song that someone else takes to #1, and then records the song herself 10 years later, should that be classified as a “cover version”?

 

I guess it doesn’t really matter. I love the Shirelles, and their original 1961 version of this song is pretty great, but Carole King’s slowed-down rendition on Tapestry is even better, especially the exquisite backing vocals by Joni Mitchell and James Taylor.

How to manage the White House cancer

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-manage-the-white-house-cancer/2017/02/17/d2369ebc-f54f-11e6-b9c9-e83fce42fb61_story.html?utm_term=.d76c06c8406d