Sublime

Evolution also requires that we keep doing what works.

Obviously Reich’s influence went way beyond just me. Alongside other authors such as Anthony Giddens[411] and Jeremy Rifkin[412], he was instrumental in crafting the message of a new generation of progressive leaders that the era of the steady, lifelong job was over. In a more global and unstable world, lifelong education was the new key to

The result: those who saw a palliative care specialist stopped chemotherapy sooner, entered hospice far earlier, experienced less suffering at the end of their lives—and they lived 25 percent longer. In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients

Scandinavian policies allow social and medical services to be planned and managed together, in many cases. Local governments—county councils or municipalities—are responsible for a pool of resources that has to finance both health and social services. For instance, Norwegians who face illness can count on a variety of municipality-funded social

Books became my closest confidants, finely ground lenses providing new views of the world.

Defending his medical and unemployment insurance schemes in 1884, Bismarck argued that “the greatest burden for the working class is the uncertainty of life. They can never be certain that they will have a job, or that they will have health and the ability to work. We cannot protect a man from all sickness and misfortune. But it is our obligation,

Between 1980 and 2005, the number of medical-school matriculants essentially flatlined69 as the US added 70 million people.

Tocqueville

Virtue cannot be limited to those with the means to practice it.