FROM MICKEY KAUS, A QUESTION FOR TOM BROKAW:

Did you know that the Dartmouth analysis–contrasting the amount spent by U.C.L.A. in the last six months of life with the smaller amount spent by Mayo in Rochester–doesn’t count the money spent on patients who live? And here I thought having patients survive was kind of the whole point.

No, Mickey. Power for the right sort is the whole point.