We Don't Have Enough Solid Organs For

We All Focus On Health Care And Diabetes And Heart Disease But There's All Sorts Of Things Like The Simple Fact That, You Know, Heavier People, Transportation Is More, So There's More Spent On Gasoline, More On Jet Fuel, People Have Had To Change The Size Of Doorways, The Size Of Chairs On Airplanes And At Sports Stadiums, So There's A Lot Of Hidden Costs As Well To The Increasing Girth Of Americans.

Anyone Who Lives In Washington And Has An Official Position Viscerally Understands The Cost Of A Lack Of Privacy. Every Dinner - Especially Ones With A Journalist In Attendance - Is Preceded By The Mandatory, 'this Is Off The Record.' But Everyone Also Knows, Nothing Is Really 'off The Record.

I Guess, As An Emanuel, I Have A Voice That Carries.

We Had A Big Controversy In The United States When There Was A Limited Number Of Dialysis Machines. In Seattle, They Appointed What They Called A 'god Committee' To Choose Who Should Get It, And That Committee Was Eventually Abandoned. Society Ended Up Paying The Whole Bill For Dialysis Instead Of Having People Make Those Decisions.

I Am Not Sure Precisely Why We Need To Have Privacy, But Everyone Knows For Sure That We Need To Relax And Not Have To Put On Our Social, Outwardly Looking Face All Of The Time.