The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care. – Sidney Blumenthal
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. – Sidney Blumenthal
On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made. – Sidney Blumenthal
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. – Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979