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Healthcare: Reform, Yes; But Not à la Lamm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Edmund D. Pellegrino
Edmund D. Pellegrino
Affiliation:
Director of the Georgetown Center for the Advanced Study of Ethics and John Carroll Professor of Medicine and Medical Humanities, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Washington, D.C.
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Richard Lamm is an eloquent and insistent advocate for healthcare reform. In his paper, he argues that if reform is to be effective, a radical metamorphosis in the values underlying our present system must take place. “New realities” have made the “old values” unsustainable. Unless they are replaced by “new values,” we face a future of disastrous overspending, gross inequities in accessibility, poorer health for many, and more expensive dying.

Type
From the Annual Congress of Healthcare Ethics and Ethics Committees
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Spring 1994 , pp. 168 - 173
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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