Those of us in the field of HIV careand research remain steadfast in working toward a cure, a vaccine, better-tolerated therapies, and better access to careand reproductive-health services for those infected and at risk.
McKeown's thesis produced a strong reaction from those who thought his aim was political to rebalance modern health-care from cure to prevention and that he had missed statistical quirks, like the stagnation of the trend toward less disease at a time when urban populations were booming.
Sally Pipes is president of the Pacific Research Institute and the author of Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer.
Mr McCain offers orthodox supply-side solutions, stressing deregulation, free trade, competitiveness and the use of market mechanisms to cure the problems in everything from health care to education to pensions.