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Big decisions on health playing out like card games with high stakes

Tim Tenbensel 2022

Tim Tenbensel

The magician
To be a skilled policy player, you need to know which suit is trumps at any time, and play your hand accordingly

POLICY PUZZLER

Policy decision-making is like a card game – and some cards hold more value than others, writes Tim Tenbensel

A good place to start thinking about any type of public policy is the maxim, “no one knows everything, but everyone knows something” Of all the c