Sick in the head: Why America won't get the health-care system it needs—By Luke Mitchell (Harper's Magazine)

   "still are part of a culture predisposed to virtuality, a culture
    where in every realm of endeavor, from industry to politics to
    art, the word trumps the deed and the immaterial emotion trumps
    the material fact"

  How, though, is single-payer any less beholden to the "needs of
  the 'system

   "defined by the passivity of a people that has sacrificed its own
    , dem ocratic power of large numbers on the altar of strange and
    unstated beliefs"

   "His anger—and his emphasis on “a man” as the relevant object of
    social consideration—were unusual"

   "As we get better at understanding why people get sick, we will
    also get better at deciding whether or not to insure them.
    Ultimately, the entire nation could be reduced to two perfect
    circles: the people who pay for insurance and don’t need it, and
    the people who need insurance but can’t pay for it. “I mean,
    asymptotically,” I said, “you will slowly approach perfect
    knowledge . . .”"

   "The argument for single payer is straightforward"

   "The demand for not dying, to give just one example, is pretty
    much unlimited"

   "Overtreatment, of course, is another word for growth, and it is
    the natural consequence of a market-driven system"
 
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