Tufts Roundtable, Volume 2, Issue 1 September 2009

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ContaCt InformatIon

Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public SLincoln Filene Hall

Tufts UniversityMedford, Massachusetts 02155

[email protected]

FEATURES

Whole Right to Healthcare? Alexa Rosenthall5

Nameless Victims o Bush-Era Lawlessness Michael Steinberg7

amiil roubles Chris Walczyszyn6

What Could Have Been John Peter Kaytrosh4

he Issue o Healthcare Reorm (TufTscope) Michael Shusterman8

LOCAL AND CAMPUS ISSUES

NATIONAL

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

No Miracle CurebyJonaThanDanzig

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he rouble With CompromisebyTimLesinski

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Why Were in Aghanistan Chas Morrison7

Where is Central Asia? Asad Budruddin8

Missile Deense and Russia Edmund Gallese9

A Felons Right to Vote Chelsea Ongaro6


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The Picture o HealthWhat Congress Has in Mind for Healthcare Refo

Senate Health Committee Bill Affordable HealthChoices Act

House Tri-CommitteesAmericas Affordable Health Choices Act o 2009

Senate Finance CommitteeAmericas Healthy Future Act

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$1.042 trillion over 10 years, inanced by cutting spending on

Medicaid and Medicare and instituting new taxes on higher

incomes.

$774 billion over 10 years, fnanced by cutting spe

on Medicaid and Medicare and instituting new ta

high-cost insurance.

e time has come to take on this

daunting task. e time has come toreform Americas health care.Sen. Max Baucus (D-M), author of the Senate Finance Committee Bill

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Editor-in-Chie

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Charlotte Harrison

PresidentsShabazz StuartSamuel WallisChas Morrison

Managing ContentEditor

Asad BudruddinJonathan DanzigEdmund Galleseim LesinskiAlexa RosenthallMichael ShustermanMichael SteinbergChris Walczyszyn

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Richard MondelloExecutive Web

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Michael GraifmanBusiness Manager

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Editing Sta Chelsea Ongaro

Daniel RosenblumManaging ProductionDirector

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While Obamas election and theeconomic bailouts are visible, no onecan live in the pursuit of happinesswithout good health.


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Te Issue of Healthcare ReformM S, Tuftscope

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Michael Shusterman is a senior majoring in biology and history. He is Editor-in-Chief ofS: T I J H, E, &P. S provides commentary on health policy, bioethics, and publichealth topics at http://tuftscope.blogspot.com and www.twitter.com/tuftscope.

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Greg Beach, Things that are CoolIm not dead!: Debunking the Public Option

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