media strainer

In this piece from NPR’s On The Media, Nate Silver (of 538) discusses the framing of the health care reform debate by both sides. It’s worth a listen but not entirely compelling radio (if Bob Garfield or Brooke Gladstone had been there, maybe the story’d be different).
There was, however, an idea towards the end that [...]

this week’s new yorker has an interesting look at the prospect of health care reform in the US.
revealing in his look at the historical roots of other industrialized nations (Great Britain, France and Switzerland), author and surgeon Atul Gawande shows that most health care systems result from circumstance rather than some inherent quality of decency [...]