• Reforming Health Care in The US: A Tutorial (Part 1)

    This year’s presidential election will be, among other things, a referendum on Health Care Reform and the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010. We may have to stop and remind ourselves of that periodically in the next...

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  • Ethics, Morality and Values in the Health Care Debate

    I have not written of ethics and morality as a factor in health care reform. Perhaps this is a reflection of their absence in the national debate. Nevertheless assumptions concerning these expressions of American values are inherent...

    • Posted 12 years ago
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  • Week-end Update

    I’ll be on the road again for the next five days, but as I was packing this morning I heard some tidbits I just had to pass on: All the chattering heads in print and TV are...

    • Posted 12 years ago
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  • What Every Voter Needs To Understand About The American Health Care System

    The Republican National Convention is history, Hurricane Issac is winding down in Missouri and the lines of battle for 2012 have been drawn. The Obama-Biden team will doubtlessly talk about health care next week, but their positions...

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  • Get Government Out of My Hair and Your Filthy Hands Off My Medicare

    The choice of Congressmen Paul Ryan has injected a new wrinkle into the Health Care Reform debate: Medicare. The Todd Akin flap has injected others, but let’s take this one wrinkle at a time. Ironically this now...

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