16 February 2007

I am shocked -- shocked -- to learn that we pay too much for health care

It seems that the McKinsey Global Institute has figured out that we are getting a terrible, terrible deal on health care. There's a summary of their report here. The summary of the summary is this: we pay doctors and hospitals and pharmaceutecal companies too much. Like I said, I'm shocked.

Written English needs a punctuation mark that is at the opposite end of the excitement spectrum from the exclamation point. If we had one, the last sentence of the preceding paragraph would have ended in it.

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