Peddling Pestilence
Ah, it's up on the
Mother Jones site: my
essay on how corporations are marketing sickness. I'm somewhat convinced that the proliferation of pseudo-illness
could be a deeper and more fundamental problem with health care in America than the fact that we don't have single-payer, or whatever. But I haven't come across anyone who has a grasp of how widespread a problem it really is, or how it affects insurance premiums or whether it bankrupts public health systems. Without better numbers, this debate gets very anecdotal very quickly.