Malcolm Gladwell on Healthcare...

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Wednesday August 24, 2005 · 9:08 AM PDT

2005/08/24 · 09:08

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.

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Fed up with CNN...

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Friday June 17, 2005 · 5:38 PM PDT

2005/06/17 · 17:38

(First diary, please excuse any faux pas)

I'm preaching to the choir here, and many others around here feel that CNN stands for Continuously Needless News. What I would like to know is why they feel they must intentionally dumb down their U.S. news, and why.
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