Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

