Monday, September 21, 2009

The Health Care Blog: Health care reform: econo-think, democracy and sustainability

By LAWRENCE W. ARRINGTON

Most Americans place high value on our economic system with its emphasis on free enterprise, entrepreneurship and competition. But history teaches there are circumstances when public interest must be protected against business practices that damage society, the natural environment or the economy.

Sustainability provides a superior moral compass that stands in contrast to econo-think, and enables us to recognize that we live in a society and a natural world as well as in an economy.

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