The yin and yang of statistics vs anecdotes from University of Pittsburgh I have completed my third Master’s degree with this presentation on the conflicts if anecdotes and statistics in persuading the public on an issue.  The slides are above and the videos from it are below.  I believe they speak for themselves.  **Related Posts** […]

Donny Deutsch at MSNBC’s Morning Joe claimed that “Once again the party of no,” Deutsch said on July 1, 2014. “The country’s will was for immigration reform, they’re against it. Minimum wage, we want to raise it for everybody, another populist point of view. They don’t want to do it. By the way, 13 percent […]

Hi All.  It was a great concert on Saturday night with a great turnout.  Mike Stout and the Human Union debuted a new song and video which can be seen above. All 221 posts from this blog have been exported into the blog on the state page which can be seen at the link below.  […]

This is a Cross Post with the Healthcare for All PA/PUSH site on trends in medical bankruptcies and an update on decreases in Massachusetts mortality rates over the same period. In my post on the Gallup polls on improvements in the uninsured rates.  I speculated that looking at the rates of medical bankruptcies would provide […]

The Gallup Organization has produced quarterly national estimates of the uninsured rate to assess the impact of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare).  It suggests that the rate is at the lowest since the fourth quarter of 2008, before the recession began in earnest.   The graph below, not surprisingly, shows that the rates are lower […]

Former Sen. Rick Santorum actually compared the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare as he calls it) to Apartheid South Africa.  Here is his quote as he was paying tribute to Nelson Mandela on Fox News “was fighting against some great injustice. I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now […]

With all of the shenanigans of the government shutdown, the debt ceiling, and the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) over and the debates over the Affordable Care Act website underway, it is now time to talk about the dollars and cents of healthcare. Healthcare for All PA will be hosting UMASS economist Dr. Gerald Friedman […]

In my last post I looked at changes in the census rates in 51 states (50 plus DC) since parts of the act have come into effect.  I found 14 with a significant change from 2010 to 2011 (the most recent years available since the ACA was passed).  Each individual state was classified as changed if […]

In my post on Pennsylvania’s uninsured, I wrote that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was having little effect in Pennsylvania’s rate of uninsured.  I wrote in another post that I received skeptical comments on my first post. I said in that post that I would look at changes in the rates in other states.  I couldn’t then because the […]

As I said in my last post the new Small Area Health Insurance Estimates are out for every county in the US.  The overall trend for the state can be seen below since 2008 for those between the ages of 18 and 65.  The change in the rate has leveled off from 2010 to 2011 […]