Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The Moral Compass of Health Care

By Dr. Evelyn Higgins

How do we define social morality within the context of political morality? Can we even mesh the two? How do we do what’s best for the greater good in the realm of health care? In an area of history, which will come to define us as a nation, health care is at the core of our heated debate. Many claim it’s partisanship at best. I see it as individual political agendas. After all, it would appear that good judgment would look at long-range implications of today’s decision and see that a complete overhaul of a system that is not without fault could be improved upon greatly by some honest politics, such as tort reform. Ah, but that makes the hair on the back of a lawmaker stand straight up. After all, many career bureaucrats and/or career politicians hail from the halls of institutions of higher learning in the area of law. Nepotism perhaps, or cover your back is at risk. But then again so is your seat at risk as a representative of your constituents. [more…]

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