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health care reform Archive
The Elbow Bump of Health Care
Posted on September 15, 2009 | 6 CommentsBleary eyed and beat after landing in London at the end of August, I saw an odd thing at Heathrow: signs posted everywhere with advice for how to avoid catching...
How to Fix Costs of Health Care? Let’s Do the Math
Posted on September 10, 2009 | 7 CommentsThe easiest way to contain health care costs to is to make sure people are healthy and to intercept diseases early enough to treat them successfully. Let's look at the real costs of preventive care versus a serious illness.
The Executioner’s Song
Posted on September 9, 2009 | 2 CommentsGreat gods, now they are turning to Texas for advice on health care reform. This is about as useful as asking the executioner for advice on memorable last words. You...
Let Them Eat Teabags
Posted on September 9, 2009 | 17 CommentsThere’s nothing quite as sad as the spectacle of people wearing teabags on their hats while demanding that their health and the health of their children and neighbors be sacrificed to the gods of insurance industry hellfire.
Death Panels Reconsidered
Posted on September 6, 2009 | 4 CommentsIf Congress and the White House were to create “death panels” to decide who lives and who dies, just imagine the president’s cabinet meetings. The suits are arrayed around the...
Love of Liberty and Health Care in America
Posted on August 23, 2009 | No CommentsWilliam Hazlitt, the great 19th Century English essayist and defender of human freedom, said: Abstract reason, unassisted by passion, is no match for power and prejudice, armed with force and...A Burden Tender and in No Wise Heavy
Posted on August 16, 2009 | No CommentsAs a nation, we are playing a game of chess with Death. We are Ingmar Bergman’s knight, Antonius Block, forestalling white-faced, black-cloaked Death with a dangerous challenge. Lose and we...