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New Study Finds Patients Regularly Mugged in the Dark

Posted on June 12, 2013 by David Dobbs / 10 Comments

A while back I wrote about my experience being shaken down for over $4,000 when I had to take my daughter for a simple x-ray after she hurt her foot while we we...

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Actually, Mr. Brill, Fixing Healthcare Is Kinda Simple

Posted on February 22, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

When you need health care, you enter not a market but a con game in which you're first a guarantor and source of profit, and second a patient. Wired Science blo...

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Notables from Out-n-About 03/17/2010 (a.m.)

Posted on March 16, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Reading, ants, reading about ants, and Ezra Klein fact-checks David Brooks

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Ezra Klein – America spends way, way, way more on health care

Posted on January 14, 2010 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

We don’t have a government-run system. But our system is so expensive that our government’s partial role is pricier than the whole of government-run...

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Nate Silver’s top ten reasons the public option is surging

Posted on October 21, 2009 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Nate Silver gives 10 reasons the public option is surging. I throw in my doubts and caveats.

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If Vermont is #1 in health care, this country’s in big trouble

Posted on October 13, 2009 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The steps we've taken, while half-measures to be sure, reflect the state's essential decency and civility. Yet Vermont's distinction is not in curing the health...

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Healthcare reform roundup: The Turnaround

Posted on October 9, 2009 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The tone of discussions of reform in both Congress and the blogosphere has changed remarkably over the last few days. It's gone from pessimistic to optimistic, ...

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Health-Care Secret Revealed, Again: More Is Not Better

Posted on October 6, 2009 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

"If there's any way out of our current health-care morass, it's this: In health care, more expensive care is often no better than less expensive care."

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The Power of Anecdote

Posted on October 6, 2009 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

"if a skilled physician cannot resist orders for expensive tests and unnecessary drugs, there is no chance that individual consumers, even if they have more ski...

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Dipstick: religious brains, more school, more meds, states rights, and dancing with the unwilling. Plus Ardi, free

Posted on October 2, 2009 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This implies that religious beliefs and behavior emerged not as sui generis evolutionary adaptations, but as an extension (some would say "by product") of soci...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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