Health care is not the only area where political decisions are matters of life and death. Environmental programs to reduce air pollution, educational efforts to publicize the adverse effects of smoking, traffic measures that lower the risk of car accidents: many policies save lives – and omit other lives that would have been saved if the money had been spent otherwise.
医疗绝不是政治决策能关乎生死的唯一领域。减轻空气污染的环境项目、宣传吸烟负作用的教育计划、降低车祸风险的交通措施：很多政策在拯救生命的同时，也忽略了那些其它拨款方式本来可以拯救的千千万万的生命。