Krugman on health care

Fantastic Krugman piece in today's NYT on the bloated wastefulness of the American private health-care system. Every American should be aware of these fundamental problems. (Yes, if only.)

There was an interesting bit on NPR this morning about Sigmund Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays, dean of American advertising and public relations, who was the first to figure out how to sell stuff to people not through reason but by appealing to their base instincts. In the 1930s, Bernays discovered that Josef Goebbels had apparently applied some of his theories in whipping up anti-Semitism.