"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Medical Costs

One of the best TV programs for thinkers today is PBS's  Need To Know.  Extraordinarily even-handed analysis of some of the really hard issues in modern life tackled head-on -- unlike anyone in Washington DC. 

One of them was on the medical malpractice mess -- the report was partially underwritten by Common Good - another of my favorite sites when I need some 'thinking material'. 



One of the things I like about this program is that it doesn't come out with an "in your face" ardent recommendation.  Sometimes (like this episode) where the program has obviously proved that the current system is broken beyond repair, they make a mild suggestion -- but there is still plenty of room for thinking....how would such a system work here? ....what kind of adjustments would need to be made so that no one abuses it with our wide-open justice system? 

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