<p><span class="deck"> Americans have never been so healthy, thanks to advances in medical technology and research. Now we have to learn to deal with the staggering costs.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">As modern medicine has grown ever more powerful, our ways of providing it and paying for it have gotten ever-more-wasteful, unaffordable, and unfair. Here is an explanation and a possible first step toward a solution.</span></p>
