The School Shooting Breaks Me

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A successful society. Honors people who run toward danger, not away from it. "We're taking Lincoln off the high school name because he wasn't good enough," she says of her country's heroics. We don't instill a sense of duty in our children through Hagiography and myth of heroes; we're much bigger to terror heroes down at least in the United States.

Oncologist and epidemiologist Vinay Prasad argues that too many very expensive drugs get approved by the FDA that have very limited impact on the lives of patients. Prasad explains the incentives that distort the current system. The general problem, he explains to EconTalk host Russ Roberts, is the death of duty--too many players in the health care landscape and elsewhere stay quiet or do the wrong thing in order to serve themselves.