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Opinion: To improve health care, we must ‘begin with a war against bad government’

Instead of trying to keep politics out of health care, what we really need to do is get everyone politically involved in improving it.
An illustration of an 18th-century hospital.

I hear every so often that we should keep politics out of health care. That may be true for partisan politics, but I believe that political oversight of health care policy, when done right, can be beneficial.

From its birth out of Western philosophy, modern medicine has always been closely intertwined with politics. Take, for example, the hospital, the heart of our health care system. When French philosopher,” he found that it emerged from the political turmoil of the French Revolution.

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