Welcome to the Fall 2012 run of the Foundations of HPM course and its blog. I hope you will find the practice of starting threads, posting reactions, etc engaging! I thought this was an interesting article in the Times by Eduardo Porter Thoughts on how we should come to grips with the need to find a place in the health care system to say NO? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/business/economy/rationing-health-care-more-fairly.html?_r=1&ref=policy