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20. Do Our Politics Need a Doctor?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Importance of Insurance for Seniors

Senator bill frisk served as majority leader of the senate for more than a decade. He told how his life as a doctor shaped how he approached being a politician in general. One example he gave was the expansion of medicare, which in part, added prescription drugs to the federal health ance programme senator frisk helped lead this expansion back in two thousand three.

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