Health Wonk Review is a fortnightly collection of health policy writing from around the blogosphere.
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The Ryan plan was the health wonk equivalent of deja vu when I read it.
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Every politician and policy wonk suggests the usual remedies — more education, retraining and infrastructure investment.
That is the advantage to having a political ideologue lead the organization as opposed to a policy wonk.
It also has fans on the Right, most notably Yuval Levin, dean of the conservative entitlement-reform wonk set.
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"A policy wonk, " says Joseph Tartaro, president of the pro-gun Second Amendment Foundation.
Both think Mitt Romney made a definitive choice in selecting budget wonk Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) as his running mate.
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The senator is a policy wonk with the political skills, regularly applied across party lines, to put ideas into practice.
Another category of health blogs I like, but often disagree with, is embodied by the collection at Health Wonk Review.
Instead of coming off as sexy and vacuous, the wonk in the hipster glasses presents as functionally unisex and extremely content-rich.
Half of last month's congressional recess was spent pressing political and policy-wonk flesh in Germany, Belgium, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia, Romania and Bosnia.
And, with marijuana, this gets pretty interesting—at least for a tax wonk.
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Slowly but steadily, a new party line is taking form: Believe it or not, Bill Clinton is a crack foreign policy wonk, after all.
Development aid is the wonkiest of wonk subjects, something the average person, at least until a few years ago, did not pay much attention to.
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After a bad spell as a front-line wonk, leading her husband's failed effort to reform health care, she has retreated to safely feminine issues like children.
Wind the clock back to 1979, and no one, not a single pundit, policy wonk, or economist, forecast the economic boom that came from the last such cycle.
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Kid is Duncan Pinderhughes, a wonk who doffs his bottom-down collars when a school administrator accidentally switches his identity with that of Blade Brown (Play), a stylish, incorrigible homeboy.
You can find the wonk in the hipster glasses in your newspaper too, or at websites that publish a lot of listicles, charticles, graphs, and, sometimes, acts of wonk-on-wonk violence.
Over the past 15 years, Power has fashioned herself into a celebrity policy wonk by cultivating a public persona of herself as a woman moved by the desire to prevent genocide.
After an atrocious turn as the Tory Leader 7 years ago, he retreated from front bench politics to start a think tank, where it turned out that he made a rather effective wonk.
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