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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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10.16.09

Subsidiarity and Solidarity in Health Care Reform

E.D. Kain | From The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

So often the political debate in America revolves around two seemingly conflicting values: solidarity and subsidiarity. William Sage touched on the former. Opponents of health care reform often talk about the latter. But it is the intersection of these two values that matters most to American politics, and nowhere more so than in the health care debate…

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