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Easy answers to easy questions

Wed, 02/04/2009 - 2:35pm — DCblogger

Am I the only one who think an Atul Gawande-Sanjay Gupta team would be unbeatable?

yes

Gawande and Gupta have both been caught lying. You can't win with liars.

Please join John Conyers in opposing Gupta for SG.

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Atul Gawande's apology for for-profit health insurance in the New Yorker

Wed, 01/28/2009 - 9:09am — DCblogger

Dear Dr Gawande:

“Getting There From Here” is a wonderfully written piece full of good analyses of how broken our healthcare “system” is and how we got into this mess.
Your central hypothesis is that we can use the idea of “path dependence” to understand how other countries achieved universal or national health insurance, and thus chart a route forward here in the US. Of course, path dependence is much better at explaining why things happened than it is at predicting what will be, or, as you put it, “With path-dependent processes, the outcome is unpredictable at the start.”

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