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Health Care And The American Way Money

Tyler Cowen | Bloomberg | 20th July 2017
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America has some of the most expensive medicine in the world. But why? “Once we focus on consumption, America’s health-care expenditures no longer appear so unusual. If you graph them per capita against individual consumption, the fit is very close across developed nations. Americans spend a lot on health care because we spend a lot, period. We treat a lot of health care as similar to personal consumption. We love the quick fix and we hate being told no” (760 words)

It’s Okay To Be A Coward About Cancer Life

Josh Friedman | Time | 21st July 2017
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“You don’t battle cancer. You don’t fight it. If cancer wants you it sneaks into your room at night and just takes you. It doesn’t care if you’re John Wayne or John McCain. The ‘tough guy’ narrative is seductive. It suggests we have control over our fate, that we can will cancer away. These are lies we tell ourselves. And for some patients that’s helpful. It gets them through the day. It’s a useful tool. But courageousness is a standard that no sick person should feel like they have to meet” (1,120 words)

The Somali Pirates Are Back World

Magnus Boding Hansen | IRIN | 19th July 2017
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Expect more piracy in the Gulf of Aden. After four years of policing the shipping routes, Nato has moved on. But the pirates of Puntland remain, enriched by their diversification into human trafficking while the Gulf was closed to them. “The notorious arms dealer Gaagaale, ‘he who stutters’, no longer has a shed down by the roundabout. You can, however, still buy a Makarov pistol from him for $1,600 if you know someone who has his number” (2,500 words)

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