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Atul Gawande’s “Path” to Healthcare Reform

Atul Gawande has a reasonable, pragmatic path to health care reform, well-meaning soul that he is.

In the latest New Yorker, Gawande’s article “Getting There From Here” attempts to pop the presumption that widespread healthcare reform in the United States requires a socialist-scale upheaval to work. In a practical sense, those countries that some admire for universal coverage were largely built on the pre-existing system that was well-suited for extending universal care. Great Britain, as an example, built the NHS on a network of hospitals supported by the war effort that began in the 1930s, and which Britons largely accepted by the time that the NHS started in 1948. [more]