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Austin Frakt had some trouble finding the Medicare cut I mentioned that would hold the growth of a certain class of payments to medical providers to GDP plus one percentage point. That's because I made a mistake. The class of payments I was talking about -- the annual productivity adjustments -- are not held to GDP+1. They're held to "a 10-year moving average of economy-wide private, non-farm productivity." I got their growth rate mixed up with something else in the bill. The underlying point of this post still holds, but it's obviously important that I get my numbers right. Apologies.
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Ezra Klein
| February 8, 2011; 9:30 AM ET
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And this is a crucial difference between the GOP and 'liberals'. The admission of mistakes.
Posted by: rpixley220 | February 8, 2011 11:30 AM | Report abuse
This is the difference between getting lost in wonkery and having discipline as a writer.
You've become too self-indulgent on health care, to the point that much if not the majority of your non-health care stuff is written by someone else.
Focus!
Posted by: johnmarshall5446 | February 8, 2011 12:01 PM | Report abuse
A simple mistake is not the end of the world, but it's always nice to see someone fess up when they realize they were wrong. Well done.
Posted by: MosBen | February 8, 2011 12:23 PM | Report abuse
Kudos. This is the way to post a correction: put it up front and be open about it. A lot of authors get embarrassed and defensive when they have to correct, so they bury it in a footnote. Or even, on the internet, they'll just edit their article without informing anyone.
Posted by: zosima | February 8, 2011 11:26 PM | Report abuse
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