According to a report in the May/June edition of the journal Health Affairs, the U.S. is spending more than double on “healthcare” than in other industrialized countries and yet has little to show for it. We all know that what is being called “healthcare” is really some sort of disease treatment protocol which is not

Terence Monmaney of the L.A. Times reports that “research into the topic of optimism finds not only that positive people live longer, but that a sunny outlook can be taught.” Science has largely avoided the subject of optimism during the past century. The topic of optimism was so disreputable “that one of modernity’s most influential