July 3, 2007 5:14PM 

# Cato@Liberty’s Health Care Content Ranked #24? 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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Last week, I entered the [Cato@Liberty](https://www.cato.org) blog you’re reading in the [health​care100​.com](http://www.edrugsearch.com/edsblog/healthcare100/) rankings of health care blogs. Which might have been unfair. Most or all of the blogs in that ranking are exclusively focused on health care. Cato@Liberty covers many other issues and could get credit for visits and incoming links that have nothing to do with health care. So I made sure to enter only the health-care-specific [URL](https://www.cato.org/index.php?cat=13&submit=GO) and [RSS feed](https://www.cato.org/cat_rss.php?categories=13).

The results (as of July 2, 2007) are in: [Cato@Liberty (Health Care)](https://www.cato.org/index.php?cat=13&submit=GO) tied with three other blogs for 24th. That put it ahead of such popular blogs as:

- [WSJ​.com: Health Blog](http://blogs.wsj.com/health/) and [*Health Affairs* Blog](http://healthaffairs.org/blog/) (tied for 34th),
- [Insure Blog](http://insureblog.blogspot.com/) and [Healthcare Economist](http://healthcare-economist.com/) (tied for 54th),
- [Medpundit](http://www.medpundit.blogspot.com/) and [Healthcare Law Blog](http://healthcarebloglaw.blogspot.com/) (tied for 61st), and possibly
- [Managed Care Matters](http://www.joepaduda.com/), which appears twice on the list (tied for both 71st and 88th).

We have yet to eclipse [The Health Care Blog](http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/) (tied for 7th), but Matthew Holt is on notice.

I am not convinced that Cato@Liberty’s health care content deserves that ranking, however. The “Cato@Liberty (Health Care)” entry on the health​care100​.com list links to Cato@Liberty’s [main page](https://www.cato.org), rather than the [health-care content page](https://www.cato.org/index.php?cat=13&submit=GO). In contrast, the [WSJ​.com: Health Blog](http://blogs.wsj.com/health/) entry links to that blog’s health-care content.

I’m guessing that using the health-care-specific URL and RSS feed actually would tend to understate the popularity of Cato@Liberty’s health care content, since many readers presumably access our health-care content along with the rest. The health-specific RSS is certainly Cato@Liberty’s weakest suit in the health​care100​.com rankings. But when we edge out The Health Care Blog, I don’t want to hear any talk about asterisks.

A bigger concern is that Cato@Liberty’s strongest showing is in the “Technorati Authority Ranking” portion of the health​care100​.com [algorithm](http://www.edrugsearch.com/edsblog/healthcare100/algorithm.php): “Technorati’s authority ranking shows the number of unique blogs that have linked to a particular blog over the past six months.” This must be capturing non-health-care-related links to Cato@Liberty. I hope the good folks at health​care100​.com will let us know if that’s the case and whether it can be remedied.

My favorite blog name on the list: [Fingers and Tubes in Every Orifice](http://fingersandtubesineveryorifice.blogspot.com/) (tied for 71st).

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