The Biggest Roadblock to Change May Be in Our Minds

An overlooked component of the health care debate is our tendency to justify the status quo.

When you step back from the specifics of the health care debate — as well as the rancor surrounding it — an odd contradiction emerges.

Fairly or not, insurance companies have traditionally been regarded with a combination of contempt and scorn. Yet the president's proposal to change the nation's system of health care coverage — which would put restrictions on some of the companies' more egregious practices and provide increased competition ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 14, 2009

The short synopsis of the study is interesting enough to instigate looking at the study and independent replications and variations of it.

people are motivated to justify and rationalize the way things are, so that existing social, economic and political arrangements tend to be perceived as fair and legitimate."

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