The best health care system
I was talking to my Mom, who teaches nursing, about health care last weekend. She made the point that a sign of the quality of the American health care system over that of other countries is that...
View ArticleRationing
The term “rationing” has been thrown around a lot in health care discussions. If we have government control, we’re going to have to ration, they say. They’re right, given a finite budget and resources,...
View ArticleFranken on health care
Al Franken’s discussion with some constituents (including real skeptics) about health care is worth your time: This is the first time I’ve heard a politician talk about health care and sound rather...
View ArticleT.R. Reid interview
Mandatory listening for anyone interested in the healthcare debate: Fresh Air’s interview with T.R. Reid. The description from NPR: “Journalist and author T.R. Reid set out on a global tour of...
View ArticleQuite a divide
Taking a quick break from work to write a bit.. I haven’t seen any of Obama’s speech, but this sentence on the FiveThirtyEight liveblog struck me: Note, though, that many Republicans didn’t stand up...
View ArticleThe cost of healthcare
I found this map from CNN showing health care costs, percentage of government-run care, etc. The most striking thing to me was the health care spending per capita. A few selected countries (ordered by...
View ArticleAntibiotics in animals
I meant to pass this along a while ago… Food animal production accounts for 70 percent — 70 percent! — of the antibiotics used in the United States. That doesn’t even include the antibiotics used for...
View ArticleHealth and class
My Mom sent me this NYT article a little while ago… I highly recommend it: Life at the Top in America Isn’t Just Better, It’s Longer The article describes three people having a heart attack and how...
View ArticleHealth and Opportunity
I’ve had serious writer’s block about this topic for a while, so I’m using the old “lower your writing standards and go for it” method that allows most of these posts to be written. Why would society...
View Article‘This American Life’ on Healthcare
The two recent This American Life episodes about the American healthcare system were both incredibly informative and really great radio. These segments fundamentally changes my thoughts about the...
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