Douglas Harrison.
At some point in the past week or so, the health care debate stopped being about health care. Sure, how to reform the health care system – if at all – is what everyone notionally keeps talking about. But you don’t have to listen long to get the distinct feeling that deductibles and co-pays, cost containment and preventative care, government mandates and end-of-life decisions have started to function as a collective cipher through which at least one part of America – a largely white, largely Christian, very angry part – is really talking (and often shouting) about something else entirely.
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