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Since 2001 the competitive strategy expert has focused much attention on the healthcare system. Three years ago he co-authored “Redefining Health Care?? with Elizabeth O. Teisberg, and his research underlies health care delivery curriculum at Harvard and other universities...
...time when myths and half-truths pose serious threats to intelligent discourse and one of the greatest problems of our generation—health care??must be engaged with seriously, these schoolyard antics on the part of both Fox and the White House neither are politically expedient nor do they move debate forward. The White House should take Fox’s deliberate deceptions seriously, but there are more intelligent ways to deal with lies than picking a fight that can’t be won at a reasonable cost. For now, the focus should be on what...
...grammatical rule governing phrasal adjectives compounds the confusion (no pun intended); multi-word descriptors (such as “health care??) must be hyphenated when they appear before a noun (as in “health-care reform?...
...Health care?? is far from the only contentious compound. There’s the Gchat in which your friend excuses herself with “nevermind.” There’s the e-mail from your TF who wants to “follow-up” with you. There’s the hyphenated “e-mail” itself, which looks normal to-day, but almost certainly won’t to-morrow. These combinations and more have vexed editors for quite a while—but the health-care issue...
...when I pick up my editing pen, I still maintain “health care?? for the noun and “health-care?? for the adjective. In other words, I cling to the old rules, even as my progressive personal philosophy knows that they’re inevitably being squeezed...