Emergency in the Emergency Rooms (NYT)

dreadfully unprepared prepares you better by not wasting money on things that haven't gone wrong

that leaves you free to deal with other things

which leaves you better prepared overall

economic idiots

for everything you do, there's something displaced that you can't do

The plight of America's emergency rooms underscores how dreadfully unprepared we are to cope with a major disaster like pandemic influenza or mass casualties from a terrorism attack.