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...uncertainty surrounding health-care reform, most observers thought they could count on at least one thing from Capitol Hill - that the proposals coming out of the House of Representatives would be bolder and more liberal than those from the more moderate Senate. But as the first details of the actual bills begin to surface, that's no longer so clear. On Tuesday, the same day that the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee released some of its bill's language, the first outlines of the bill being drafted by the three key committee chairmen in the House - Energy...
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...what actually happened to American innovation during that period? We came up with America Online, Netscape, Amazon, Google, Blogger, Wikipedia, Craigslist, TiVo, Netflix, eBay, the iPod and iPhone, Xbox, Facebook and Twitter itself. Sure, we didn't build the Prius or the Wii, but if you measure global innovation in terms of actual lifestyle-changing hit products and not just grad students, the U.S. has been lapping the field for the past 20 years...
...success is increasingly built on cooperation with the corporate and government powers that touch us. Playing along with that sketchy (but expensive) new treatment or being a champion of the wacky new state initiative is more likely to help your career than giving an educated but honest appraisal of actual patients' well being. The only salvation from this might be, strangely, the recession. Traditional medicine, without the consumer marketing or institutional pandering to federal agencies, is cheaper. And if the downturn turns down low enough, we'll need to turn down demand. And stop hawking medicine...