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• T. R. Reid talks at Town Hall at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 8. Tickets are $5 at the door. The Washington Post correspondent and NPR commentator has a new book out, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.

T. R. Reid argues that lack of universal health care is primarily a moral question, not an economic one. It's estimated that each year we do not offer universal health care, 20,000 U.S. citizens die who did not have to. To my ears, the debate sounds Abrahamic:

24What if there are fifty uninsured people in the country? Will You really let them fall ill and not spare the lives of the fifty uninsured people? 25Far be it from You to do such a thing–to kill the uninsured with the terminally ill, treating the uninsured and the terminally ill alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

I can't pretend not to be biased here--I've been a proponent of health care reform since reading of Harry S Truman's attempts at reform in the mid-1940...

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