I like this video because it's so concise, yet without over-simplifying. It addresses the giant question: why is US healthcare so messed up?
I have a sort of peripheral interest in this, given my political news addiction on the one hand and on the other, my current experience with the South Korean healthcare system, which, while far from perfect, seems much less messed up than the US system, especially as far as the rationality of costs.
Blue Octavo Haiku
after Kafka
In fat armchairs sat
indolence and impatience,
plotting my downfall
–
A wicked cage flew
across the long horizon
searching for a bird.
–
I burned with love in
empty rooms, I sternly turned
knives within myself.
–
"Behold the bright gate,"
the keeper said. "I am now
going to shut it."
–
Hardly was the road
swept clean when ah! there appeared
new piles of dry leaves.
–
But nothing could kill
a faith like a guillotine,
as heavy, as light.
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Happiness? Finding
your indestructible core;
leaving it alone.
–
Into the heavens
flew a breathless legion of
impossible crows.
– Rachel Wetzsteon (1967-2009)
[daily log: walking, 2 km]
My friend Seungbae came out on a whirlwind and we went out for dinner at the juk place across the street. I did not eat much.
I was pleased to see Seungbae, he was very gracious with Wendy. He travels to Sao Paulo and Mexico City next week for more than a month.
