I Guess, As An Emanuel, I Have

We All Focus On Health Care And Diabetes And Heart Disease But There's All Sorts Of Things Like The Simple Fact That, You Know, Heavier People, Transportation Is More, So There's More Spent On Gasoline, More On Jet Fuel, People Have Had To Change The Size Of Doorways, The Size Of Chairs On Airplanes And At Sports Stadiums, So There's A Lot Of Hidden Costs As Well To The Increasing Girth Of Americans.

The Situation Around Terri Schiavo Was A Deeply Held Conflict Over What To Do If Someone Isn't Going To Return To Consciousness Or Competence. Who Will Decide? Even There, Where We Had Settled Legal Rules, We Still Had Disagreement. We're Torn About These Things.

Having Been An Oncologist And Having Cared For Scores, If Not Hundreds, Of Dying Patients, When You Don't Have A Treatment That Can Shrink The Tumor And The Patient Will Die, It's A Very Difficult Conversation. It's Emotionally Draining.

Vaccines Are The Most Cost-effective Health Care Interventions There Are. A Dollar Spent On A Childhood Vaccination Not Only Helps Save A Life, But Greatly Reduces Spending On Future Healthcare.

We Don't Have Enough Solid Organs For Transplantation; Not Enough Kidneys, Livers, Hearts, Lungs. When You Get A Liver And You Have Three People Who Need It, Who Should Get It? We Tried To Come Up With An Ethically Defensible Answer. Because We Have To Choose.