August 19, 2009
More on Health Care Reform from L.A. Times
Booster Shots, health snippets from the L.A. Times, has a quick focus on the bioethics of health care reform. The Association of Bioethics Program Directors position:
The current state of health care is unethical. It is neither just nor fair. There is no morally defensible reason why some Americans get excellent medical care at costs they can afford and other Americans lose their homes or go into bankruptcy attempting to secure treatment for a seriously ill loved one. The current proposals being debated in Congress all go a long way towards making health care in America more just. At the same time, there is nothing in the current proposals that threatens a patient’s right to choose, a critical feature of an ethically acceptable health care system.
Read and follow the links at the L.A. Times site, which includes a conversation with the Association of Bioethics Medical Directors President-elect, David Magnus, of Stanford University.