As retired physician Dr. Stephen R. Keister prepares to enter his ninth decade, he reflects on the state of his country — and its corrupted health care system. “Never have I seen my country so fraught with danger and despair,” he confides. “Never have I seen such nihilism and cruelty expressed in public view.” “I look at the Republican ‘debates,'” he says, “and wonder, where did we — as a supposedly enlightened society — dig up this bunch of morons?”
Thorne Webb Dreyer, Editor

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