Building an American Insurance Bazaar
A 'bazaar' approach to health plans might be the least bizarre way to maintain America's accidental tradition of medical insurance.
Not a Public Option — A Public Market
Our European correspondent concludes his look at health care options in Europe by trying to strike a balance between individual and centralized concerns.
Warning Signs from Europe
The health plan wonderland of middle Europe has some issues of its own that Americans might factor into their own debate.
Nazis and Health Care
Some opponents of the president's health care efforts liken it to totalitarian states. But what was health care policy like under, say, the Nazis?
How Monolithic is Your Health Care System?
Hot on socialized medicine or cool with private payer, take the temperature of your favorite U.S. health care option with our handy-dandy Miller-McCune meter.
Joschka Fischer, A Long Strange Political Trip
As an anti-party's pre-eminent politician, Joschka Fischer took Germany's Greens out of the wilderness and into real power. But has he become what he once eschewed?
Nuclear Power? Ja, Maybe
Germany's upcoming election has put an unforgiving light on the nuclear phase-out promised in 2001.
Karl Marx and American Health Care
As the Germans and French have shown, a 'public option' for health insurance needn't give government a socialistic monopoly.
Not Recycling, and Proud of It
America's still-undecided policy on nuclear waste means the spent rods just keep a-piling up.