Terrorism is salient and graphic. Wars abroad are visible — at least imaginable. Justifying trillions in spending on fighting threats that can be exaggerated is easy when triggering fear in the population is as easy as reporting a claim without evidence; even more so when all Americans feel like it’s a threat they face.
But death from lack of access to medicine isn’t the kind of problem that privileged lawmakers and the people with power and influence tend to encounter, except, perhaps, the doctors and health economists who see it most vividly.
Quotation above from The Healing of America, by T.R. Reid. Required reading for HCMG 850.
