01Health·7 min
Medicine that still works
Trust in health institutions did not collapse because people got stupider. It collapsed because certainty was performed where it did not exist.
Health
Care and the system that delivers it — treatments, food and the table, hospitals, insurers, prices.
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02Health·7 min
The best thing medicine has handed us in a generation
The weight-loss injections work, and they work for the people the old advice failed hardest. That is good news. The only thing left to build is the half of the arrangement that stands on the other side of the prescription — and we already know how to build it.
03Health·7 min
We built the off-ramp and forgot the gate
Vaping is the most effective exit from cigarettes anyone has ever built, and it is also the first nicotine product in a century that children took to on their own. Both of those are true, and the country keeps insisting on only one of them.
04Health·7 min
You are issued one, and nobody is holding a spare
Health is the only asset every other plan is denominated in, and it is the one we treat as a hobby — something to get to once the important things are handled.