… Is this what we really want — handing off increasing levels of decision-making power to the private sphere? Americans may not agree about much, but it's clear they are angry about the degree to which corporations constrain our choices about our health and our bodies. (Look, for instance, at the gleeful response to the coldblooded murder of a health insurance executive.) But just when we should be demanding more public accountability and reliability, we seem to be turning away from the idea that health is a collective endeavor, a public good at all, and retreating into the rhetoric of personal responsibility. The deeper message is that we're all on our own, fighting our private battles. I fear we will come to regret it...
Sid Mukherjee
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/opinion/covid-public-health-privatization.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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