The Dander Riseth Ever Higher: Shulkin Case Emblematic of Dysfunction

What follows is numero sesto if memory serves in a series of what gets one's dander up in this era of dysfunctional health care. Of course it seems these days our news in Health Care Renewal is so often all about focal dysfunction mirroring much broader problems of governmental and societal dysfunction. It's in this context that I learned just now of the current VA Secretary's ouster while

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