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10/18/09 Interview 2

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Part 2: Difficult Decisions in Health Care. Bioethicist Dr. Gregory Eastwood and health policy expert Tom Dennison at Syracuse University tackle the health care debate by posing some very ethics-rich questions about who gets coverage, to what extent, and who falls through the cracks.

Health Information Center Resources for the Ethics of Health Care Reform - The Uninsured:

• The Uninsured: A Primer. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
• Ethics of Health Care Reform. Supporting Health Care Reform Is the Right Thing to Do: Why we must fix an unfair system. Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
• Health care as a human right. PRI Public Radio International.
• Children's health insurance: a moral obligation?. ReligionLink.com.
• Uninsured pose moral as well as economic challenge. ReligionLink.com.
• Health care ethics: Debating the disease and the cure. ReligionLink.com.
• Health Care: Politics in the Pews. Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

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If you have questions, suggestions of ethical conundrums or stories to share, contact us:

• by e-mail at medicalethics at upstate.edu
• by phone at 315.464.4545 (toll free 877.464.4545)
• or mail to: Medical Ethics - HLOA, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse NY 13210

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