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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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From: koan2/27/2010 12:46:29 PM
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That is it in a nutshell, and what the right wing and their followers simply do not understand.

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America's Blind Spot
Health Care & the Common Good
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The concept of the common good, ancient in origin, would seem on the face of it an ideal foundation for health-care reform. We all get sick and depend on others to care for us, and many of us will need expensive treatments that are beyond the means of all but the most affluent. At the core of the idea of a common good is the Aristotelian understanding of man as a social being—as well as the understanding that, in the words of Pope John XXIII's Mater et magistra, “individual human beings are the foundation, the cause, and the end of every social institution.”
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