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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
— Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, as quoted in A Nation of Typhoid Marys. Americans live shorter lives than Greeks, our kids are twice as likely to die by age 5 as Portuguese children, and American women are 11 times as likely to die in childbirth as women in Ireland. (N.Y. Times)
