Special Interests are Not “Ideas”: Moral Lessons from the Health Care Reform Factory
…extract), and he said repeatedly that their “ideas” about reform were most welcome at the table. Morally speaking, however, not all “ideas” have the same legitimacy. There is no moral equivalence between the views of disinterested analysts and public health specialists and the views, of say, medical equipment manufacturers or pharmaceutical companies or (most notoriously) big health insurance companies whose entire raison d’etre is to make money b…
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