We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

By KIM BELLARD My friends, we are like explorers of yore standing at the edge of a known continent, looking out at the vast ocean in hopes of finding new, unspoiled, better lands across it. True, we may have despoiled the continent behind us, but certainly things will be better in the new lands. In the metaphor I’m thinking of, the known continent is our shambles of a healthcare system. For all the protestations about the U.S. having the best health care in the world, that’s manifestly untrue. We don’t live as long, we have more chronic diseases, we kill each other and ourselves at a