tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037190876571380696.post4439533143049855540..comments2023-11-25T03:11:51.759-06:00Comments on On Today's Page: 15% of US GDP goes to health care – with 135% of comparable (OECD) per-capita GDPs – what’s the universal health hold up?Denis Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833367196756465896noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037190876571380696.post-72222732144065893162009-06-20T10:02:33.045-05:002009-06-20T10:02:33.045-05:00COMMENTING ON MYSELF;
For years I was frustrated ...COMMENTING ON MYSELF;<br /><br />For years I was frustrated by progressive geeks and journalists reporting the federal mis-report of 12.5% below the poverty line – undercutting their own efforts. I emailed every media address I could scrounge up with the developed-1955, federal formula -- to no avail: the power of “pack-check.” Finally, I came up with “Approaching 37% of American Families Below A More Up-To-Date Poverty Line?*” (while dueling with a troll on Ezra) – and the tri-multiple spread may actually have overcome “pack-check” – haven’t seen the 12.5% quote much since. Let’s see if the eighth-grade math surprise at the beginning of this essay can finally begin to undo professional “pack check” resistance (I emailed 5000 of my last attempt) to making our uniquely distorted American labor market our all-or-nothing-at-all national economic focus (no surprise to Tom Geoghegan or Barbara Ehrenreich).<br /><br />*http://ontodayspage.blogspot.com/2008/02/are-38-of-american-families-living.htmlDenis Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11833367196756465896noreply@blogger.com