Obamacare supporters are taking a much-needed victory lap this morning over the news that the law will dramatically reduce individual market premiums in New York state.

That’s a political coup for Democrats, both because the headlines look nice and because they point to the reality that the law will make life better for thousands of people. New York’s a big state!

But as I’m sure others have already pointed out, New York’s also a unique state. And the health policy status quo there makes today’s news entirely predictable. Read More

Bob Filner, the Democratic Mayor of San Diego at the center of a cringe-tastic and seemingly endless sexual harassment scandal, is slated to give the keynote address at a benefit for victims of sexual assault.

Some readers are asking whether Progressive Senescent Columnist Fogeyism is related to a term I coined a few years back, ‘Chronic Racial Grandpaism‘.

I would say they’re related but PSCF is the formal diagnostic category that the DSM-V has chosen. And ‘chronic racial grandpaism’ is something that goes well beyond the world of columnists.

As many of you in the psychiatric-therapeutic and stand up comedy professions know, there was an extremely lengthy process preceding the publication of DSM-V last May, the authoritative guide to diagnoses in the mental health world. And as everyone is coming together today to critique and make fun of Richard Cohen’s race column, I wanted to mention a new designation that was not included but almost certainly should have been: Progressive Senescent Columnist Fogeyism (PSCF), an increasingly common ailment in an aging America. (Sometimes Columnist is incorrectly referred to as ‘columnar’.) Read More