Comments on Health Care Organizational Ethics: Is Ethics Relevant for Health Reform?

Hello Barbard and Gho Cheng - Gho Cheng - thank y...

2009-10-24T21:05:32.864-04:00

Hello Barbard and Gho Cheng -

Gho Cheng - thank you for the kind words! I do plan to continue blogging. I see that you have recently started a blog. Good luck!

Barbara - I'll send you an email separately after I'm back from a forthcoming three day trip to Los Angeles, where I'll be speaking at an ethics committee's retreat. I see that the site you mention is about asbestos-induced illness and mesothelioma. Industrial hazards and environmental toxins are central concerns for social and organizational ethics.

Best

Jim

Great post and read it twice. Keep posting good po...

2009-10-21T18:02:31.515-04:00

Great post and read it twice. Keep posting good post my friend

Greetings, My name is Barbara O’ Brien and my blo...

2009-10-21T15:20:23.633-04:00

Greetings,

My name is Barbara O’ Brien and my blogging at The Mahablog, Crooks and Liars, AlterNet, and elsewhere on the progressive political and health blogophere has earned me the notoriety of being a panelist at the Yearly Kos Convention and a featured guest blogger at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, DC.

I’m contacting you because I found your site in a health reform blog search and want to tell you about my newest blogging platform —the public concern of health care and its reform. Our shared concerns include health reform, tort reform, public health, safe workplaces, and asbestos contamination.

To increase awareness on these important issues, my goal is to get a resource link on your site or even allow me to provide a guest posting. Please contact me back, I hope to hear from you soon. Drop by our site www.maacenter.org in the meantime.

Thanks,

Barbara O’ Brien
barbaraobrien@maacenter.org

Hi Tom - Thanks for the valuable comment. Even th...

2009-10-20T14:14:31.474-04:00

Hi Tom -

Thanks for the valuable comment. Even though I'm not a fellow Catholic I like to invoke the saints in my thinking and writing, as I did with Mother Theresa in this post.

I really appreciate your reference to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which I'd completely forgotten. When I looked it up in Wikipedia it brought back memory of Senator Strom Thurmond's 24 hour filibuster - I'd read about it in the papers at the time.

I've been thinking about whatever bill (I assume there will be one) that comes out of this year's health reform process in the same way as you. I don't expect much either. But my optimistic self predicts that the legislature will be "empowered" by the process and by actually accomplishing a piece of legislation we'll be readier to do more and better when the health "system" s - - t continues to hit the fan.

I enjoyed reading Tom Degan's Daily Rant!

Best

Jim

A friendly reminder to my fellow Catholics: When ...

2009-10-20T10:02:05.525-04:00

A friendly reminder to my fellow Catholics:

When Jesus healed the sick he did not make exceptions for any "preexisting conditions". Just a thought.

I don't know what kind of health care reform will come out of this session, but I strongly suspect it won't be much. There is, however a silver lining behind this very dark cloud. I am reminded of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Don't be embarrassed if you've never heard of it, there really isn't a hell of a lot to remember about it; a mere pittance, really - a scrap of leftovers tossed out to "American Negros" (in the parlance of the age) in order to appease them. But it made the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - the one we remember - all-the-more easier seven years later.

We'll live to fight another day.

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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY