A CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Connection is an open conversation, a group blog, and a nonpartisan effort to spark a rich discourse on fundamental values in health reform. Anyone can submit a post, and a selection of posts will appear here, on the Health Affairs blog, and in an upcoming volume to be released by the Hastings Center.

Whether you’re a blogger or not, please consider contributing. It’s time we connect American values to American health reform!

Connecting AMERICAN Values with HEALTH Reform

THE ESSAYS

The Hastings Center, a nonpartisan bioethics research institute, recently published Connecting American Values with American Health Care Reform. It features 11 provocative essays on core American values and their important ramifications for the nation’s health reform effort. Volume two will feature posts from The Connection.

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Values on NPR’s Talk of the Nation Science Friday

Tom Murray, president of The Hastings Center, discussed how and why health reform should reflect our values in an interview on NPR’s Science Friday.

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11.16.09 | Comments (1)

value: Accountability, Efficiency, Fairness, Freedom, Health, Honesty, Integrity, Justice, Liberty, Medical Progress, Pragmatism, Privacy, Quality, Responsibility, Solidarity, Stewardship, Subsidiarity

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12.21.09

Improved Health Care for All: A Hospital Chaplain’s Perspective

Robert R. Morris |

For the past 40+ years I have been a chaplain at varying times in a city hospital, a community mental health center, an academic medical center, a community not for profit hospital setting. I have seen patients from all places on the economic spectrum, gender, disease modalities, injuries, emotional difficulties and reactions and more. I have seen the staffs that work with these people – some of whom are bright, curious, well educated and highly motivated; and some who are simply putting in their hours of the job, dull in mind and spirit, and uncaring.

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11.16.09

Values on NPR’s Talk of the Nation Science Friday

| From NPR Science Friday

Tom Murray, president of The Hastings Center, discussed how and why health reform should reflect our values in an interview on NPR’s Science Friday.

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Comments (1) | value: Accountability, Efficiency, Fairness, Freedom, Health, Honesty, Integrity, Justice, Liberty, Medical Progress, Pragmatism, Privacy, Quality, Responsibility, Solidarity, Stewardship, Subsidiarity

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