The downtown task force must not promote image over the sanctity of life. We need the entire system to be stronger -- and I'm focused on writing about this as much as I can -- but that must include keeping people alive in the first place.

It's very frustrating to see his urgency to roll back bold evidenced based interventions so soon after they get started, when the baseline assumption for anything market oriented is: "just be patient, the invisible hand will take care of it, just wait longer. When did you lose your faith?"