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Marcia Angell
Marcia Angell
American Editor
Born: Apr 20, 1939
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Japan has very long hospital stays. Ah, it's almost a rest cure. People in Japan who are hospitalized might lie around the hospital for a week or two just to take a rest. Marcia Angell
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The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry. Marcia Angell
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Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights. Marcia Angell
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For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs. Marcia Angell
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Unlike the federal government, most states don't have the option of running a deficit. Marcia Angell
Government Deficit Unlike States Running Federal Federal Government Most Option
Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it. Marcia Angell
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I think doctors are really suffering now. They're suffering in the sense that they feel torn between serving their patients in the best way they can and dealing with all of requirements of the insurance companies and the HMOs and the hassles and the paper work and the increasing pressures to do less and less for their patients. Marcia Angell
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Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century. Marcia Angell
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Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. Marcia Angell
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In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy. Marcia Angell
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Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65. Marcia Angell
Government Health People Wait Big Think Rejection Everyone Liberals Out Would Would-Be Delighted Wrong Health Reform Opposition Big Government Reform Who Hardly Extending Medicare Millions

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