• 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...

    • Posted 12 years ago
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  • Take Two Doses of The Olympics and Call Me in the Morning

    Into the middle of a long summer of stifling heat, nauseating Washington politics, two public mass shootings, an irritating presidential campaign you wish was long over, dead fish floating down the Missouri River, the Penn State-Jerry Sandusky scandal...

    • Posted 12 years ago
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  • What Does The Aurora Colorado Massacre Teach Us?

    The terrible events in Aurora Colorado remind us that there are worse things in life than nauseating politics. Both candidates are to be congratulated for suspending their campaigns. Romney was generous to compliment the president for going...

    • Posted 12 years ago
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