Lack of ability to fully comprehend facts is no excuse for arguing against providing them. I would have expected better from a doctor as well as The New Yorker

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Lisa Rosenbaum writes about the problem with knowing how much your health care costs: http://nyr.kr/1c3OS7x

“Transparency, as a concept, has tremendous visceral appeal. How can more information not be better? But information is not knowledge, and efforts to bring transparency to health care have previously failed, or caused unintended harm.”

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Lack of ability to fully comprehend facts is no excuse for arguing against providing them. I would have expected better from a doctor as well as The New Yorker