Saturday, December 12, 2009

The cost of kindness

Uwe E. Reinhardt suggests an interesting explanation for the difficulties which face attempts to introduce universal health care systems in America: On Health Care, Are Europeans Just Kinder People?

Are we perhaps facing a similar danger of having kindness priced out of our collective souls? The arguments over NICE (non)approval for expensive new cancer drugs, & the subsequent demand for co-payments to be allowed, would seem to suggest so.


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