Field Notes Inside an Integrated Communications Agency

In the distant future, health care is a commodity the average person can access only by winning a highly publicized lottery. A bad sci-fi movie, possibly starring Sylvester Stallone or Bruce Willis? No, it's a real program underway in Oregon.

Can't a country routinely affording $3.60 cups of coffee can do better than to let citizens gamble their lives on the long odds of winning a lottery?