Word: argumentive
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...Conservatives are (clumsily) making a moral argument: “socialized” medicine by rationing care restricts choice. Individuals must then rely on the state for medical access, rather than their own willingness to pay. The extra costs associated with the government picking up emergency room visits is worth it to thwart the slide into single-payer healthcare...
...Liberals, rather than questioning the moral tenability of such a position—whether choice for some and nothing for others is acceptable—often make an argument based on efficiency. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, for one, suggests governments are necessary to correct for market failure. Those who need care the most, the chronically sick or diseased, are denied insurance. As a result, their conditions worsen, debt accumulates, and the public must eventually pick...
...then, is there so much concern about vaccines? In the U.S., few health issues get people as riled up as the persistent, though almost completely discredited, argument that routine childhood immunizations cause autism. In the U.K., doctors and policy makers are debating whether to encourage universal vaccination against chickenpox, a step that U.S. medical authorities took in 1995. Even that debate - focused not on the vaccine's safety, but on whether it's really necessary - has become surprisingly bitter...
...love with the idea of patients treating themselves either. Could these gadgets make dermatologists obsolete? Not likely. If anything, those in the business argue, these self-treatments might entice consumers who want to do something but can't afford to. Eventually they'll be hooked, goes the argument, and visit physicians for more. Says Dr. Bruce Katz, director of the Juva Skin and Laser Center in New York City: "It's just like hair color. Sure, you can do it yourself, but you won't get the same result you'll get in a hair salon." Then again, home hair...
...farmers here can afford fertilizers, pesticides or electricity to heat greenhouses; most use environmentally friendly methods because they have no alternative. And then there's the development argument...