Surrounded by healthcare slippery slopes

Two bits of journalism caught my eye over the weekend, both for the wrong reasons.

The first, in my hometown Los Angeles Times, noted there is a "global" push for universal healthcare coverage. China, for example, may be working its citizens to death assembling iPads or clapping them in jails when they complain, but it also has spent $124 billion to guarantee healthcare coverage for 90 percent of its citizens. That's only about $150 per person to cover some 900 million citizens, but it also represents months worth of pay for most of its workers. So it's a start. Read more...