Healthcare Finance Debate

The way that the debate over health care is being conducted is brazen and disturbing. If it turns out to be a flashpoint for violence -- as it may -- it will be profoundly ironic: our efforts to improve health care delivery, end up being a catalyst for generalized thuggery.


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If this is the general level of debate. You guys are in trouble.