In the current New Yorker, Dr. Atul Gawande, well-known expounder of healthcare issues and endocrine surgeon at Harvard, discusses some of the more outrageous exploitations of healthcare economics in his lengthy article, Overkill.
The genesis of this re-exploration of the costs of America s medical care was his 2009 piece in the same journal, The Cost Conundrum, in which he compared two cities in Texas as to their Medicare expenditures. He found, to his expressed amazement,...