The rancorous hysteria surrounding the health-care debate is so
pervasive it seems a deliberate attempt to raise tempers way past the
level of rational thought. It has taken the question of how to fix an
often dysfunctional, arbitrary and wildly expensive health-care system
and turned it into a crusade against "government control of the
citizenry", guided by "the wisdom of the founding fathers".
If this type of jingoistic, delusional blather is not your idea
of problem solving, I strongly recommend an article in the Dec. 14,
2009, issue of The New
Yorker magazine, by Atul Gawande (available at www.newyorker.com).
Dr. Gawande takes an insightful, unorthodox look at health-care, and
notes similarities with an agricultural crisis our country was
experiencing in the early 1900s. The solution to that crisis sheds some
light, and hope, on our problems today.
Submitted by Paul Slavin
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