Tate Atkinson > Recent Status Updates

“I look at the U.S. health care system and see and administrative monstrosity, a truly bizarre mélange of thousands of payers with payment systems that differ for no socially beneficial reason, as well as a staggeringly complex public system with mind-boggling administered process and other rules expressing distinctions that can only be regarded as weird”-pg. 137 (Henry Aaron)

“In 2011, tobacco companies spent more than $8.3 billion...to market cigarettes in the United States; this level of spending exceeded spending on tobacco prevention and control efforts by all of the states and territories by a ration of approximately 18 to 1”-pg. 30

“This is clearly a time for water decisions. Both wounded and unwounded must look to the tribes future”-208
“He fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning “That path leads ever down into stagnation””-215
“If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken”-223