Tag: health care
Narrating Sickness, Land, and Hope
To whatever extent I imposed a narrative on experience, it was only because experience first imposed it upon me.
From Endoscopy to Colonoscopy: One Man’s Strange and Confounding Journey Through...
Beneath these critiques of the American medical system and the biological mysteries of the human body throbs a more existential question: How does one deal with suffering? These are some of the most moving parts of Douthat’s book. He finds himself literally prostrate before the altar seeking some meaning in his suffering.
Waking Up, Smelling the Constitutional Coffee
Wichita, KS
Dahlia Lithwick and Ezra Klein are a couple of my favorite pundits in the whole blogosphere. Lithwick is snarky, and Klein is wonky,...
Obesity Rates Double. Let’s Ban Transfat.
If we continue reaching for the Twinkie, we shouldn't be surprised to find a government bureaucrat on the other end.
Fat Nation
Kearneysville, WV. Tis the season to be jolly. And the jolliest fellow of all is that rotund elf in the red suit. He’s...
Health Subsidiarity, or Solidarity, or Socialism (Take Your Pick)
Wichita, KS
The debate over health care reform in the Senate has moved into overdrive, with one possible compromise following another in rapid succession. The...
The Young and the Insurance-Less
Claremont, CA. In the current conversation on health care, we often hear that the crises of costs and coverage are problems that come with...
Can Health Care Be Local?
Wichita, KS
Over the past couple of weeks, I've written a few things on the current debate over health care reform. A couple of smart...
How Germany Made Us “Conservative”
Wichita, KS. Fifteen years ago, when my wife and I got married, we had a lot of inchoate ideas and aspirations, many of which...