The emotional vitriol aroused of late by the health care delivery debate has startled both politicians and the press. In fact it was totally predicted. Effective and affordable health care in times ahead will require a whole new kind of maturity in our relationship to life’s ultimate limit—to the fact of death. I’ve written about the looming conundrum addressing this limit presents for years, but we may just now be ready to confront the challenge. As a physician it is a challenge that touches especially close to home. It applies equally whatever a county’s approach to health care delivery. The health care delivery crisis is not just a U.S. crisis. In time it will confront even the countries that now have the most enlightened of policies. Health care expenditures are spiraling [...]
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