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		<title>Inconceivable!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/04/inconceivable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Free choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is fertility a health issue or a lifestyle choice? This month a health care refom advisory panel will meet to consider whether contraception should be offered free of charge as a form of preventative medicine, the AP reports. Healthcare reform of course poses many questions concerning how medical services are paid for and delivered. But, [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/14/it%e2%80%99s-a-woman%e2%80%99s-world-%e2%80%93and-much-more-in-iceland/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: It’s a woman’s world –and much more- in Iceland'>It’s a woman’s world –and much more- in Iceland</a></li>
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		<title>Are firemen like doctors?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/20/are-firefighters-like-doctors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How deep does the analogy go?  Not deep enough to justify universal health care. At the Washington Post blog, Ezra Klein discusses the parallel between firefighters letting someone’s house burn because he didn’t pay $75 for fire insurance—which happened a few weeks ago in a rural area of Tennessee that doesn’t guarantee fire protection—and letting [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/11/24/subsidizing-spiritual-healing/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Subsidizing spiritual healing'>Subsidizing spiritual healing</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/08/26/more-on-healthcare-and-choice/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: More on healthcare and choice'>More on healthcare and choice</a></li>
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		<title>Do not pass GO. Do not collect heart transplant.</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/20/do-not-pass-go-do-not-collect-heart-transplant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/20/do-not-pass-go-do-not-collect-heart-transplant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Distributive Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bureaucracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[complexity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The complexity of allocating health care morally ABC News reports that the morbidly obese are unlikely to receive heart transplants because their chances of recovery are so slim. Some transplant centers purportedly have a Body Mass Index cutoff of 35. Although nobody died in the making of the ABC story, the same cannot be said [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/08/27/who-lives-and-who-dies/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Who lives and who dies?'>Who lives and who dies?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/11/16/healthcare-is-nice-but-morally-expensive/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Healthcare is nice, but (morally) expensive'>Healthcare is nice, but (morally) expensive</a></li>
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		<title>Feminist polygamy&#8230;and other dangerous thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/09/feminist-polygamy-and-other-dangerous-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The website Big Think devoted each day last month to a &#8220;dangerous idea&#8221; from experts in various fields.  A number of them relate to public philosophy. Among the relevant posts, Richard Pildes, NYU constitutional law professor, argues for the abolition of primary elections. (A topic I discussed here). Peter Singer, Princeton utilitarian philosopher, argues we [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/10/21/is-fatism-justified/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Is Fatism justified?'>Is Fatism justified?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/19/gay-marriage-polygamy/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Gay marriage &#038; polygamy'>Gay marriage &#038; polygamy</a></li>
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		<title>Just what the doctor ordered?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/21/just-what-the-doctor-ordered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House this month asked states to end criminalization of HIV transmission.  Basically, these laws make it a crime for anyone who knows they have HIV to engage in activities that could transmit the disease to others (unless informed consent is given).  According to the White House: In many instances, the continued existence and [...]


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		<title>I&#8217;m not racist, I have lots of friends who are pale</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/13/im-not-racist-i-have-lots-of-friends-who-are-pale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/13/im-not-racist-i-have-lots-of-friends-who-are-pale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post has a ridiculously amazing article on people who think that the &#8220;tan tax&#8221;, a provision of the health care reform bill charging a 10 percent surcharge on the use of tanning beds, constitutes racism against &#8212; yeah, that&#8217;s right &#8212; pale-skinned people (or is it pigment-challenged Americans?): The case can seem deceptively [...]


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		<title>Paying people to be healthy</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/15/paying-people-to-be-healthy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/15/paying-people-to-be-healthy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times’ Room for Debate blog has a fascinating discussion on programs that encourage people to become and stay healthy.  A panel that includes policy analysts, a doctor and a professor of bioethics consider whether incentive programs work and whether they raise ethical questions or alter the sacred doctor-patient relationship.  Check out the [...]


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		<title>Is there a states&#8217; rights issue in the Affordable Care Act?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/05/04/is-there-a-states-rights-issue-in-the-affordable-care-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/05/04/is-there-a-states-rights-issue-in-the-affordable-care-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 15:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan has a piece in Politico debunking the legal claims made by state attorneys general against the Affordable Care Act. Geoghegan&#8217;s most persuasive argument is that the voluntary nature of Medicare puts conservative lawyers in a poor predicament.  Geoghegan pounces: Now, the state attorneys general anticipate this annoying quibble. Their complaint [...]


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		<title>The blame game</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/04/22/the-blame-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to talk about blame with diseases like AIDS? In Tuesday’s NY Times Infectious-disease physician Abigal Zuger writes that it is time to move beyond “obsolete H.IV. statues” that seek to punish those who transmit the disease. She explains that our fascination with playing the blame game over the spread of AIDS is representative of [...]


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		<title>Tea Partyers for Medicare</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/04/16/tea-partyers-for-medicare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inconsistency or philosophical conservatism? The New York Times had a fascinating look yesterday at the demographic and ideological makeup on the Tea Party movement.  Long discussed, but little studied, The New York Times and CBS commissioned a poll this month to get a detailed look at the profile and attitudes of Tea Party supporters. The [...]


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