One has only to follow the controversy that has exploded over the recent breast cancer detection recommendations to understand why health care is so expensive in America and why we should worry about the possibility of fixing it. The recommendations make, to my mind, good sense, they're minimally effective, they cause relatively large numbers of false positive, and unnecessary pain and suffering. This article from the NYT, thanks, _rck_, also did a nice job of showing that part of the issue may... read more