1.0 link 231720 <![CDATA[Healthcare Reform and the Price of Torture]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-coombs-lee/healthcare-reform-and-the_b_231720.html In this country we usually torture people before we allow them to die of whatever is killing them --- cancer, emphysema, the multi-organ failure of diabetes or heart disease.

Like the episodes of military torture from which our nation is recovering, medical torture reflects a culture and a set of assumptions. Reform is not about just identifying a few "bad actors" and weeding them out. Our medical-industrial complex follows a cultural paradigm to do as many things to people near death...

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