Are spending so much less and their health is better than ours. Not only do we spend more, we actually get worse outcomes for what we spend than other countries. They were looking at this data as well. They decided to do something different, they wanted to look at per Capita Health spending with an add per Capita Services and benefits spending to the graph. When they did that, the u. S. Is the big spenders and everybody else is down the other side. When they added social benefits mending, they found the u. S. Was in the middle of the pack. We were no longer the big spenders. When you have health care and social spending, we are not the big spenders. , this waspointed out in the New York Times and was a wek called the paradox. Found that we had the accent on the wrong syllable. We were spending our money on the health care and getting worse results. Those countries that spend roughly two times on social service and social benefits compared to what they spend on health had Better Health
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It just fell together as i went along. I think one thing that struck me very dramatically was my decision to leave vietnam and to see how seductive war is. And i knew i didnt want to be someone who went from one war to the next and be kind of a war groupie, because i couldnt make a life. I wrote once that i wanted roots that went down to the source of water. And at the time, when i was in vietnam, i wasnt sure what that would have meant, and i was too young to be thinking about that, but when i went back to vietnam in 1989, it was the first time and i traveled with a small group from hanoi all the way through the country, and i was in saigon and did the memory walk of the places i had lived. And i realized, there was a moment when it just hit me. I thought of my daughter who was then 8. And i wanted to go home. And i miss the life that i had created. And i think that was when i really realized that i had, i had done that, that i had somehow chosen or life had chosen me. I didnt want to
Cared about words a lot, and so you stayed out of his way when you were editing him and basically in my experience was you said yes or no to what he wanted to do, and you could say no, and its not for us, and but i like to say grow gore vidal. I was going to speak of someone else in the protradition of great writers and essayists contributing to the nation. Tony cushner, who i brought on to the editorial board, he in 1994 was so incensed by Andrew Sullivans piece on the case for gay marriage because it was in a very participatory aroundal capitalist, militaristic framework and we talked about it and he wanted to reply. I knew as victor has done brilliantly over the years he wanted to put tony cushner with any copkind, who had, who was really someone who came to the nation with a sensibility the nation had not had and did the first issue on gay rights called the gay moment when victor was editor, but in that piece, tony finally produced called the socialism of the skin its an extraordin