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The first Cities on a Hill column has America Works founder Peter Cove weighing in on recidivism, the new battleground for the forces previously arrayed about welfare.What to do about people with no preemptive, primary care who substitute emergency room visits when serious health problems develop? The Times takes an aproving look at a move by a few ERs to provide free primary care:With the number of uninsured Americans reaching a record 46.6 million last year, up by 7 million from 2000, Seton is one of a small number of hospital systems around the country to have done the math and acted on it. Officials decided that for many patients with chronic diseases, it would be cheaper to provide free preventive care than to absorb the high cost of repeated emergencies. While the article begins with the classic carefully selected victim who is "Unable to afford health insurance," between Medicaid and Medicare, the problem for most people making E.R. visits central to their health regime is life and health management, not impeded access to primary care. Edward Glaeser weighs in on the sale of Stuy Town, and how a generations-long undoing of the free housing market in New York intended to preserve affordable housing in fact stymies its development. And a great cartoon to boot—
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