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America’s Failure to Achieve Posture Perfection

Determining the exact role of posture is impossible, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important for general human health.

Against Bigness, Not Against Health Insurance

I believe in personal responsibility; insurance companies believe in impersonal responsibility.
December 23, 2024

The Heartbreak behind the EEG

Modern physicians use Hans Berger’s invention to save lives every day

Narrating Sickness, Land, and Hope

To whatever extent I imposed a narrative on experience, it was only because experience first imposed it upon me.

From Endoscopy to Colonoscopy: One Man’s Strange and Confounding Journey Through American Health Care

Beneath these critiques of the American medical system and the biological mysteries of the human body throbs a more existential question: How does one deal with suffering? These are some…
February 4, 2022

Waking Up, Smelling the Constitutional Coffee

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Wichita, KS Dahlia Lithwick and Ezra Klein are a couple of my favorite pundits in the whole blogosphere. Lithwick is snarky, and Klein is wonky,…
May 17, 2011

Obesity Rates Double. Let’s Ban Transfat.

If we continue reaching for the Twinkie, we shouldn't be surprised to find a government bureaucrat on the other end.
Mark T. Mitchell
February 14, 2011

Fat Nation

Kearneysville, WV. Tis the season to be jolly. And the jolliest fellow of all is that rotund elf in the red suit. He’s happy. He’s spry. He binges on cookies…
Mark T. Mitchell
December 18, 2009

Health Subsidiarity, or Solidarity, or Socialism (Take Your Pick)

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Wichita, KS The debate over health care reform in the Senate has moved into overdrive, with one possible compromise following another in rapid succession. The…
December 7, 2009

The Young and the Insurance-Less

Claremont, CA. In the current conversation on health care, we often hear that the crises of costs and coverage are problems that come with an aging population. OK. Fine. What’s…
November 20, 2009

Can Health Care Be Local?

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Wichita, KS Over the past couple of weeks, I've written a few things on the current debate over health care reform. A couple of smart…
August 6, 2009

How Germany Made Us “Conservative”

Wichita, KS. Fifteen years ago, when my wife and I got married, we had a lot of inchoate ideas and aspirations, many of which were relatively humble, generally egalitarian, and…