By following principles of localization, health systems can increase their resilience to external threats such as impending resource constraints and energy insecurity while promoting values that have guided debates over primary health care since the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care, such as equitable access, community participation, and sustainability.
It may guide the debate later if momentum gathers for an overhaul, he said.
I suggest three principles to help guide the debate: The tax subsidy rate should be the same for everyone.
There is little precedent to guide the debate over whether Congress can require most Americans to have health insurance, they say.
And Nicholas Kristof succinctly defended Ms. Crowley with a remark on Twitter that criticized the candidates for the way they mostly trampled on her attempts to guide the debate.
"Our involvement has really been just keeping an open ear to the issue as it's proceeding, not to really guide the debate," the official said.
Some say he could guide the debate, and give a lift to the White House, by speaking out against the aggressive budget-cutting proposed by many Republican candidates, particularly those backed by the Tea Party movement.
I want to take this opportunity not to attempt a definition, but to set out some principles which should guide our debate.
Without adequate research, which needs funding, we are left with only competing feelings to guide the debate on gun violence.
The tension and ambiguity in his statements, however, will only complicate his job, limiting his ability to guide public debate and failing to prepare Americans for the depths of the struggle we will face in securing Afghanistan.
