Medical reforms, Medical Bankruptcy and the health care cost conundrum

A few interesting posts on the internet on Medical reform, Medical bankruptcies are below.
Medical Bankruptcy in USA, 2007, a report: This report analyses the effect of medical costs on individuals filing for bankruptcy.
Criticism of these findings by Megan McArdle are here and here.
An interesting and detailed piece by Atul Gawande in New Yorker on the [...]

Obama announces new Tax policy

US president Barack Obama has announced a new tax policy, aimed at curtailing loopholes in the current tax policy. The objective of this policy is to discourage US based tech firms to park overseas earnings in tax heavens, indefinitely, usually referred as deferral.
Though, Indian IT outsourcing bellwether Infosys feels it has nothing to do with [...]