Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives
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The thought of doing harm to an unborn child is anathema.
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Because history underemphasizes how fervently smart people believed things that turned out to be wrong, we find it hard to believe that things we currently believe might someday be proved wrong as well.
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the role of perverse financial incentives likely plays a greater role in health care today than in 1981. In 1981 health-care spending in America as a percentage of GDP was 8 to 9 percent, while in 2014 that number is 18 to 20 percent. As many have noted, all these dollars have not yielded a proportionate increase in life expectancy,