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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Health Care and the Common Good | PBS

Duration: 03:49
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Broadcast Date: Nov. 6, 2009

Hastings Center bioethicist and philosopher Daniel Callahan says the common good as a moral value should be the foundation for American health care reform, but it has been largely absent from the current public debate.

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Post Date: November 6, 2009