Laurence Kotlikoff, Contributor

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Biden Needs To Call For A Manhattan Project For Rapid Home Testing Before The President Does

There is another path forward: daily rapid home testing based on new devices that could be quickly brought to market via a rapid home testing Manhattan Project. Only repeat, free testing of all Americans at their homes will let us find, capture, and ki…

A Manhattan Project To Capture And Kill COVID-19 With Rapid Home Testing

Diagnosing those who have the disease can help the infected and protect healthcare workers, but it’s a strategy for treating the sick, not saving the healthy. Real-time detection is the product of three testing features — accuracy, frequency, and speed…

Competitive Medicare For All — Its Time Has Come

There’s a huge demand for docs and nurses to treat the plague’s victims but there’s little political appetite for bailing out a system that delivers so little to so few for so much. A new American healthcare system will arise from the Covid-19 ashes….

Drs. Fauci & Birx: Here’s A Way To Contain Covid-19 And Reopen The Economy In As Little As One Month

Drs. Fauci and Birx, you are working tirelessly and heroically to fight Coronavirus. I and hundreds of millions of other Americans thank you for your efforts. If the President drags his feet on this as he’s done on most everything, resign and organize …

Group Testing Is Our Secret Weapon Against Coronavirus

The US tested new recruits for syphilis in WWII but the test was expensive. However, if the share of recruits with syphilis was low, group testing could dramatically reduce the number of tests needed to separate the healthy from the sick.

Daily Testing Of All Americans Is The Only Answer

The only way the economy will restart is daily testings of all Americans. It’s as clear as day. It’s also the solution the president rejected just yesterday.

If Only Bernie Were An Economist

Senator Sanders is letting his opponents portray his Medicare for All plan as an unaffordable extravaganza that will eliminate millions of Americans’ beloved health plans.

A Jewish Economist Saves Christmas

The President, while indelibly stained by impeachment, will soon be acquitted by his acolytes. For red and blue family members still celebrating together, debating the President’s crucification by the House and resurrection by the Senate will be imposs…

How Mayor Pete Can Win The Presidency With 1 Precise Letter

I’d support any of the more than 20 Democratic presidential candidates over the current occupant of the White House. Mayor Pete is very smart. It’s time for him to show it. The country doesn’t care about resumes. It cares about answers. Mayor Pete need…

How Howard Schultz Wins The Presidency For $30 Million

Some 42% of voters currently declare themselves independents. Another large share of voters, possibly 30%, are neither diehard Democrats nor diehard Republicans. And two-thirds of millennials say they want a third party.