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...like toothache or appendicitis - because eventually [the condition] is going to get really serious. I guess the worry is that, with antidepressants, you could actually, in the long term, avoid dealing with underlying problems - and that we would do a disservice to our citizens if we gave them that option. [By providing antidepressants for sale over the counter,] you're inadvertently promoting a particular path of dealing with these issues - an easier and cheaper path - so of course people will choose it. How much of a choice is it when you say, "Well you could spend thousands of dollars getting...
...HRL’s opportunistic campaign seems almost understandable given its mission. The University’s position, however, is less explicable: In providing an opt-out option for abortion specifically, the University unduly elevates the moral claims of anti-abortionists over any other. Jehovah’s Witnesses have no right to opt out of blood transfusion fees, and religious individuals who do not believe in modern medicine are required to have health coverage despite their moral objections. In both of these cases, we as a community have decided that the availability of these procedures and services trumps...
...HRL’s campaign. In order to get students to opt out, it exaggerates the numbers and mischaracterizes the impact. Some students might even want the refund simply because it is “free money.” That being said, students should certainly know about the option to opt out and be free to do so if they so please and are fully informed about the refund and where it goes. Given that BCBS allows opting out, the awareness element of HRL’s campaign is reasonable. Its particular methods, however...
Students are certainly free to opt in or opt out of the elective abortion option, but they should strongly consider the possible implications of their decision to opt out of the fee. The decision is not simply a moral issue; the implications of such an action could have an effect on other controversial services that are offered not only by an insurance company, but also by the University at large...
...those expressing caution and skepticism in Washington are not the only voices the commander in chief of U.S. armed forces is hearing. In Israel, from which President Bush recently returned, one doesn't have to go far to find deep, existential concern. "A military option is not a good option," for dealing with Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions, a senior Israeli official told TIME on the sidelines of one of Bush's meetings, "But there's only one thing worse than that, which is Iran going nuclear." Those outside the Israeli government express even greater urgency. "I'm worried that...