Ooh, and Andrew Sullivan Agrees!
By Because I’m unhappy with our current state of medical progress, the most important single issue to me is which [health] system encourages research and development. The answer, of course, is that neither does it nearly as well as I’d like, though the U.S. system is pretty clearly better than the European.
Sully agrees! Crazy me, I’d always thought that the most important single element of a health care system is its ability to keep people healthy and not bankrupt by providing basic preventative and secondary care. Insty and Sully’s concerns are EXACTLY what I would expect from a pair of wealthy pundits who don’t actually have to worry about the availability of basic care…