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Jon Kingsdale, last October or November admonished the Connector Board to eechsw metaphor and allegory. For the longest time I wondered exactly what he meant, but I think I understand now. It is precisely the anecdotal, the metaphorical—no matter how realistic, no matter how real, no matter how well written—that stirs the passions when what we need is to inspire the rational.Articles like that in New York may stir us, may even incite a novel thought, but they won’t put meaty health policy on the table. They won’t change the beer and donut consumption patterns of a couch potato. And they won’t put meaningful pressure on a key politician. To my way of thinking they amount to a kind of soft porn: they feel good, but they don’t do much.The New York article is, without a doubt, well-written prose. And the juxtaposition of reports and factual materials from the likes of the Commonwealth Fund coupled with the observations about the consequences of pure community rating do work out to a compelling overall result. OK, pulling heartstrings in the popular press may just be the ticket to manifesting that groundswell of public discontent we need to REALLY get something done.John, how good a job could that staff of yours do writing for a new reality-TV show!
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Nandini
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17 december 2014, 01:42:24
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