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Fixin' Healthcare

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

The Lifestyle Chronicles - Public Debates

What can be learned from public debates and points of high public attention? Appointments to the Supreme Court, abortion, assisted suicide, health insurance, the genome and cloning come to mind.

To many, if not most Americans, these issues are abstract and academic. It is open to question whether these are debates that reflect the attitudes and values shaping life in America. However, one does wonder how courts and hospitals have come to rival family households and schools as centers of the community.

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