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Article: Follow the quirk. (satiric look at health care reform) (Column)
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- National Review
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- January 24, 1994
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ANYONE trying to get to the bottom of a complicated subject is advised, "Follow the money." I don't have a good enough head for figures, and in any case my interests lie elsewhere. I'd rather watch human nature expose its flanks, so my rule is, "Follow the quirk."
The health-care debate leads me down the trail of doctors as the linchpin of America's class system.
Jewish-mother jokes: "Help! My son the doctor is drowning!"
Subtle advice: "It would be nice if you married a doctor" kept several of my female classmates in American Lit from understanding the point of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street. "What's she griping about?" asked one. "She caught a ...