I came across this recent article by Malcolm Gladwell on some of the inherent problems in the American healthcare system. It's an excellent read, and leads one to the inevitable conclusion that we need universal healthcare. This is the punchline, but you should read the rest of it to see how he got there:
In the rest of the industrialized world, it is assumed that the more equally and widely the burdens of illness are shared, the better off the population as a whole is likely to be. The reason the United States has forty-five million people without coverage is that its health-care policy is in the hands of people who disagree, and who regard health insurance not as the solution but as the problem.
Choice quotes and analysis below the fold.
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