Some months ago, I posted a short item about healthcare policy, and promised more to come. I have been dancing around this commitment like a bare-foot shaman around a nest of vipers. Healthcare policy in North America is a disheartening and daunting subject for analysis. As Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry puts it, “…debate often floats in a realm of fantasies, myths, and half-truths — more like a dream or a nightmare about a thing than the thing itself.” However, I return to this subject, putting fear and trembling aside, because it is a hugely important policy tangle and even [...]