Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.

Atul Gawande
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  2. Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

  3. The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!

  4. With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!

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