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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – STANFORD, Calif. — The frenzied debate surrounding the effort to reform the U.S. health-care system has stirred charges that the proposed changes would pose significant threats to patient choice, but David Magnus, PhD, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, refutes those claims.
Magnus is president-elect of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors, which includes the leadership of 60 academic bioethics programs in North America. The group recently issued a document detailing what it calls the three biggest myths surrounding the health-care reform effort, adding that it believes allowing the status quo to continue would be unethical.
“The current proposals being debated in Congress all go a long way toward making health care in America more just,” the group says. “At the same time, there is nothing in the proposals that threatens a patient’s right to choose — a critical feature of an ethically acceptable health-care system.”
In the latest podcast in the “1:2:1” series from the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Office of Communication and Public Affairs, Magnus lays out the three myths and explains why he and his fellow bioethicists felt compelled to get involved in the health-care reform discussion.
The interview can be heard at http://med.stanford.edu/121/2009/magnus.html.
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