Health Care and the Hunter-Gatherers
By Ronald Pies MD08/28/2009
You know something is up when proponents of the Obama health care plan are not merely shouted down at town hall meetings, but hanged in effigy. Republican pollster Bill McInturff, quoted by Dan Balz in the Aug. 8 Washington Post, was right when he observed, "We're not having a health care fight...There is a broad and underlying unease about the state of the economy and the country." But the fears and fantasies in this debate are both broader and deeper than fears about the economy, or even about the country. They reflect not only deep cultural divisions in the country, but divisions within our cultural and psychological evolution as a species.
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