I decided to do my final paper for my Ethics of Life and Death class on health care for a few reasons:
- I knew next to nothing about the state of health care in America (I’m a spoiled twenty something who’s never really had to worry about it)
- I had no clue how Scripture should inform a large-scale public policy issue such as this one.
- I wanted to know the truth about why health care prices continue to skyrocket (abuse, immigration, fraud, technology, etc.)
It was one of my favorite papers for the class. You can read it here.
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1 blip » Stem-Cell Research Stymied // Jul 19, 2006 at 9:49 pm
[...] Who’s going to benefit from this technology? Most likely it will be the rich and insured for quite some time—and they’re the ones who already have one of the most advanced medical industries at their disposal. It’s certainly not going to be the 45 million uninsured we have in this nation. Why are we spending millions when we still haven’t figured out a system of basic health care for the least of these? [...]
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