Health Care

<p><span class="deck">Had Franklin D. Roosevelt not been so conservative, we might have had national health insurance forty years ago</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Americans have never been so healthy, thanks to advances in medical technology and research. Now we have to learn to deal with the staggering costs.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">As modern medicine has grown ever more powerful, our ways of providing it and paying for it have gotten ever-more-wasteful, unaffordable, and unfair. Here is an explanation and a possible first step toward a solution.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">An interview with Bill and Hillary Clinton</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Sylvester Graham’s preposterous theories about food and health inadvertently created the American diet-fad industry.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A murderous disease was ravaging the south in 1914. Then one brave and determined doctor discovered the cure — and nobody believed him.</span></p>