Sublime

futurity:

transgression

Capacious

You can’t prepare for the worst-case scenario when the scenario keeps getting rapidly worse.

Professor William Hsiao, the Harvard economist, has helped design health care systems for more than a dozen nations. He says the creation of a national health care system involves political, economic, and medical decisions, but the primary decision to be made is a moral one.

Nuland was a renowned surgeon-philosopher whose seminal book about mortality, How We Die, had come out when I was in high school but made it into my hands only in medical school. Few books I had read so directly and wholly

You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.

For example, the current conversation about controlling costs is not changing the nature of the system. A beginning conversation would be about who is responsible for our health.