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.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
One of life's enduring mysteries
Yesterday one of the headlines on CNN was "Mike Tyson tells Piers Obamacare is bad."
Yup, if I have one go-to person on health care policy, it's Mike Tyson. Nobody has a more distinguished career in policy analysis than Iron Mike, and there's nobody I'd rather have bite my ear off.
So, what explains the utter, screaming stupidity of the corporate media? Do they give candidates for editorial positions an IQ test and if it exceeds room temperature, toss out their resumes?
Alternatively, are they not actually blithering idiots, but on a mission to degrade the public discourse and stupefy the population? If so, why? Whose idea is it to replace the brains of the U.S. population with mush? What is the ultimate goal of the conspiracy?
Just wondering.
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