Health Care Reform: Ethics, Policy and Politics

Is there a moral right to affordable health care? What are the best policy options to make it possible for everyone to afford the health care they need, and which among them are politically achievable in the US? These questions have been asked for half a century, and in the last decade health care reform has finally been achieved. But where will we go from here, and how can politically sustainable policy be better aligned with ethics?  James Coley will explore these questions.

James Coley has a master’s degree in philosophy from UNC Chapel Hill, where he works in the medical school. He has given numerous talks to Ethical Culture and Humanist societies in New York, Chicago, Baltimore and elsewhere and was the host of the “Ethics Matters” radio and podcast program.