During President Obama’s interview on 60 minutes, he answered “It’s democracy in action” in response to a question about health care. He grinned when he said it, and I wondered which arrangement of those phonemes he was voicing.
Canada is a primary source of an isotope that has certain medical applications.
Every day, U.S. doctors perform more than 50,000 state-of-the-art procedures using a radioactive isotope called technetium-99. Injecting technetium into a patient allows doctors to monitor the blood supply to the heart, look at cardiac function in chemotherapy patients, see whether certain cancers have spread to a patient’s bones, or monitor a tumor during breast cancer surgery.
Read the whole thing to see how inefficient democracy can be. But, on average, it is still an order of magnitude more efficient than monarchy.