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Preliminary Contents PART 1 The Health Care Industry 700036 Issue 1. Should Purchasing Health Insurance Be Mandatory? YES: 46210 Ronald Bailey, from "Mandatory Health Insurance Now!," Reason (November 2004) NO: 46211 Michael Tanner, from "The Slippery Slope to National Health Care," USA Today Magazine (July 2006) 40204 Issue 2. Should Life Sustaining Medical Care Be Rationed Based on Age? YES: 40207 Clare M. Clarke, from "Rationing Scarce Lift-Sustaining Resources on the Basis of Age," Journal of Advanced Nursing (May 22, 2001) NO: 40208 Norman G. Levinsky, from "Can We Afford Medical Care for Alice C?," Lancet (December 5, 1998) 700037 Issue 3. Is Medical Debt a Major Contributor to Personal Bankruptcy? YES: 46212 David U. Himmelstein, Elizabeth Warren, Deborah Thorne, and Steffie Woolhandler, from "Discounting the Debtors Will Not Make Medical Bankruptcy Disappear," Health Affairs (February 28, 2006) NO: 46213 David Dranove and Michael L. Millenson, from "Medical Bankruptcy: Myth Versus Fact," Health Affairs (February 28, 2006) 700038 Issue 4. Is the Pharmaceutical Industry Responsible for the High Cost of Prescription Drugs? YES: 35602 Christopher F. Koller, from "Prescription for Trouble: Why Drug Prices Keep Exploding," Commonweal (June 15, 2001) NO: 46214 Peter W. Huber, from "Of Pills and Profits: In Defense of Big Pharma," Commentary (July/August 2006) PART 2 Health and Society 35439 Issue 5. Is Drug Testing Vital to the Workplace? YES: 35604 William F. Current, from "Cut Costs and Increase Safety with Pre-Employment Drug Testing," Occupational Hazards (July 2002) NO: 35605 Jacob Sullum, from "Urine - or You're Out," Reason (November 2002) 35440 Issue 6. Should Doctors Ever Help Terminally Ill Patients to Commit Suicide? YES: 35606 Richard T. Hull, from "The Case For Physician-Assisted Suicide," Free Inquiry (Spring 2003) NO: 35607 Margaret Somerville, from "The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide," Free Inquiry (Spring 2003) 35441 Issue 7. Should the Government Regulate the Sale, Advertisement, and Distribution of Junk Food? YES: 35608 Marion Nestle and Michael F. Jacobson, from "Halting the Obesity Epidemic: A Public Health Policy Approach," Public Health Reports (vol. 115, January/February 2000) NO: 35609 Michelle Cottle, from "Heavy Duty," The New Republic (May 13, 2002) 35442 Issue 8. Should Race Play a Role in the Treatment and Study of Disease? YES: 35610 Esteban Gonzßlez Burchard et al., from "The Importance of Race and Ethnic Background in Biomedical Research," New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 348, no. 12, March 20, 2003)