Connecting American values with health reform
By: [editor: Mary Crowley]
Contributors: Hastings Center
Publisher: The Hastings Center
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Garrison, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Health care reform; Medical care; Medical ethics; Health Care Reform; Confidentiality; Quality of Health Care
Description: In this essay set, eleven authors each examine a different foundational value, and what its policy implications are if we take it seriously.  In an introduction, Hastings Center president Thomas H. Murray writes, "Core American values, rather than existing in ineluctable tension with one another, form a sturdy, mutually reinforcing foundation for health reform. Universal participation may be a concept whose time has finally come." And, in a letter endorsing the essays, former U.S. Senator and current New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine writes, "Health care policy is often described as an arena of intense partisan and ideological division. But there are also important areas of consensus that reflect agreement about some basic, core values. Health care reform will be most successful if it draws on these common values." - Publisher.
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Table of contents: title: Liberty: free and equal / Bruce Jennings; title: Justice and fairness: mandating universal participation / Paul T. Menzel; title: Responsibility: Shane and Joe / Jim Sabin; title: Solidarity: unfashionable, but still American / William M. Sage; title: Medical progress: unintended consequences / Daniel Callahan; title: Privacy: rethinking health information technology and informed consent / Lawrence O. Gostin; title: Physician integrity: why it is inviolable / Edmund D. Pellegrino; title: Quality: where it came from and why it matters / Frank Davidoff; title: Efficiency: getting clear on our goals / Marc J. Roberts; title: Health: the value at stake / Erika Blacksher; title: Stewardship: what kind of society do we want? / Len M. Nichols.