Ethical Issues in Health Care Reform
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The subject of health care reform is much in our minds these days. On the one hand, it is difficult to find anyone who admits to being opposed to health care reform. On the other hand, I think we may all easily foresee it is going to be extremely difficult to come up with a health care reform program that will satisfy everyone. So, if almost everyone agrees it needs fixing, why is it so difficult for people to agree on what we should do to "fix" the health care system?
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تاریخ انتشار 2003