Health Wonk Review: Pre-Thanksgivukkah edition

Here's an interesting fact about this particular edition of the venerable HWR: it won't happen again for 78,000 years (at which time Julie will still be looking great, BTW).How's that, you ask?This year (2013/5774), the first night of Chanukah falls on Thanksgiving, and that happy (if confusing) confluence of events won't happen again for another 78,000 years. At which time, I certainly hope that the host of that 'Review will be kind enough to link back to this one (hey, traffic is traffic, right?).So the theme of this edition will be freedom and gratitude, which also turns out to be the theme of both Chanukah and Thanksgiving (how serendipitous!):"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." - EpictetusAlthough we typically limit participants to one post per 'Review, I'm invoking Host's Privilege with our first entry because:a) Joe Paduda's the Founder of the Health Wonk Review, andb) These really are a matched setFirst, Joe explains why the Healthcare.gov website isn't going to be fixed by the end of the month. Then, he offers a helpful reminder that the Exchange itself is only one piece of a much larger effort."The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object." - Thomas JeffersonLongtime HWR contributor David Williams (who's been quoted - a lot! - in the MSM of late - Mazel tov!) explains that, while 'reference pricing' is ...
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