Older New Yorker article on health care costs.

[Schemp]

This was rather long, but incredibly insightful. I wish this is what our policymakers were focusing on right now. Wow. I guess the best we as individuals can do is to be the Mayo doctors rather than the McAllen ones. In a way this was really inspiring.

Cheers.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande

P.S. - This is somewhat old, and most likely posted here before. Nonetheless, if I missed it maybe some other people did too.

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[Schemp]

up!

 

[245399]

I am happy you came across this piece.
It has made more of an impact than you may have realized:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/us/politics/09health.html?_r=2&ref=health

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2009/June/10/McAllen.aspx

This was rather long, but incredibly insightful. I wish this is what our policymakers were focusing on right now. Wow. I guess the best we as individuals can do is to be the Mayo doctors rather than the McAllen ones. In a way this was really inspiring.

Cheers.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande

P.S. - This is somewhat old, and most likely posted here before. Nonetheless, if I missed it maybe some other people did too.

 

[JediZero]

OP, this article was posted and discussed here back when it came out, but it never hurts to bring it up again. It's definitely an interesting article.

I am happy you came across this piece.
It has made more of an impact than you may have realized:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/us/politics/09health.html?_r=2&ref=health

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2009/June/10/McAllen.aspx

I had no idea this was having such an impact... good to hear that this has become a bigger issue.

 

[Schemp]

I just realized this article was written by Atul Gawande, the same person who wrote the book Complications that I just read a few days ago. And he was recommended by a prominent liberal group as interim senator in Massachusetts. I seriously love this guy.

 

[AloysiusBear]

Read this article a while back when all of the politicos were talking about it. Very insightful. Thanks for drawing attention to it.

 

[notoriousmoops]

Good piece.