The Heart of Health Care
Published April 7, 2010
People are rational. People are stupid. My mother understood the contradiction facing the proponents of health care reform.
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Medical Necessities
Published December 11, 2009
If health care is going to be a public good, not a private luxury, all of us — including women — are going to have to stop acting like spoiled customers at Saks.
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Extreme Agitation
Published August 21, 2009
The opponents of health care reform are building a strategy of fomenting protesters’ frustration. The risk they run is achieving frustration — and burnout. And that suggests the way the pros can win.
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Chronic Insanity
Published June 26, 2009
Our so-called health-care “system” promotes and exploits the peculiar American illusion that the body is invulnerable and the spirit autonomous; that human need is a temporary aberration.