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The fate of health care reform

A review of Health, Luck, and Justice by Shlomi Segall. From Rationality, Markets, and Morals, Friedrich Breyer (Konstanz): Health Care Rationing and Distributive Justice; Gundolf Gubernatis (Wilhelmshaven): Rationing in Medicine: A Presupposition for Humanity and Justice; and Eduardo Rivera-Lopez (UTDT): Rationing Health Care and the Role of the Acute Principle. Jeremy D. Graham (UW): Medical Care Prices in the United States: Private Dominion and the Relative-Value Scale. David W. Brady and Daniel P. Kessler (Stanford): Who Supports Health Reform? From NYRB, is there life in health care reform? Christopher Beam on what game theory can teach us about the fate of health care reform. Health reform and moral hazard: Would health reform boost frivolous doctor visits? A look at how individualism shapes the US healthcare debate. Jonathan Chait on the Obama Method and the health care summit. Fairness Doctrine: Yes, let's talk about those Republican ideas for health care. Ezra Klein on the six Republican ideas already in the health-care reform bill. How insurers reject you: A look at BlueCross BlueShield of Texas' blueprint for denying health policies. The evidence that insurance and the access to care it facilitates improves health, particularly for vulnerable populations (due to age or chronic illness, or both) is as close to an incontrovertible truth as one can find in social science (and more and more and more). On health care, who knows "best"? Everyday Miracles: Can we live without the advances of modern medicine? A review of Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives Against All Odds by Sanjay Gupta. More and more on Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.