I expect to be disconnected from Your Intertubes for the next couple of days while I head out to The Land That Time Forgot. So I'll pick up on the whole probability and evaluation of outcomes thing when I get back.
Meanwhile, not that I haven't been cynical about politics previously, but the utter dysfunction and corruption of our political culture is just awesome to behold. The corporate media are at the heart of the problem, but the amoral politicians who collaborate with them on behalf of their parasitic corporate masters are equally culpable. Should I despair of our republic, or can this nation-state be saved?
If it can be saved, how?
Discussion of public health and health care policy, from a public health perspective. The U.S. spends more on medical services than any other country, but we get less for it. Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare. We will critically examine the economics, politics and sociology of health and illness in the U.S. and the world.
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