Article November 7, 1994 Issue

Health care ... and human relationships

This week the Sentinel looks at health care in the United States, and the "language of aspiration."

Last year in Harvard Magazine, associate editor Craig Lambert discussed some of the underlying philosophies of health care with Ronald David, M.D., a lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Underlying their conversation, from which we quote a few excerpts, was some research done by Robert Blendon of the Harvard School of Public Health, which revealed that, in general, "Americans view health care us an unmitigated, unqualified good." Also that, if given a choice, "they will virtually always choose to consume more health care rather than less."

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