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President Obama announced Monday that he will convene a summit to discuss what some call America’s health care crisis. Our guest, Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania, calls it an ethical crisis.
President Obama will move to tackle health care next week and he is expected to touch on the subject in his address to Congress tonight. He announced Monday that he will convene a summit to discuss what some call America’s health care crisis. Our guest calls it an ethical crisis. The Takeaway talks to Arthur Caplan, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania.