This House Believes that assisted suicide should be legalized
Assisted suicide is “Suicide accomplished with the aid of another person, especially a physician.”[1] It is sometimes used interchangeably with euthanasia “The act or practice of ending the life of an...
View ArticleThis House Would Implement A Fat Tax
The WHO reports that “in 2008 1.5 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight with a Body Mass Index (a proxy measurement of body fat based on height and weight) over 25 and that of these 1.5 billion...
View ArticleDeny Organs to Non-Donors
There exists no nation on Earth that does not face a severe shortage of organs available for transplant. As a result, millions die every year for want of a heart, lung, or other vital organ. There...
View ArticleThis House believes that the United States’ individual health insurance...
During the debate surrounding the proposed US health care reform legislation of 2009 and 2010, often called Obamacare, one question at hand was whether requiring people to buy private health insurance...
View ArticleThis House would introduce a system of universal healthcare
On March 23rd 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, an act the New York Times calls “the most expansive social legislation enacted in...
View ArticleTHW Require the Provision of Cannabis in Any State Funded Medical Program
The focus of this debate is quite specific. In many countries in the world the recreational use of Cannabis is so widespread as to be beyond debate. In other countries it’s use in any form is so...
View ArticleThis House Believes Alternative Medicine Poses a Threat to Public Health
Alternative (or complementary) medicine, as a concept, covers such a huge range of techniques and practices. However, broadly speaking, the term usually refers those techniques that fall outside...
View ArticleThis House Would Ban Human Cloning.
The cloning of ‘Dolly’ the sheep in 1997 by Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh generated a spontaneous worldwide reaction. Dr. Richard Seed, an American geneticist,...
View ArticleThis House would grant those diagnosed with terminal illnesses the right to...
Clinical trials1,2 have four phases, which proceed sequentially. Not all drugs make it to the end of the process (if a drug ‘fails’ a phase 1 trial, there is little point in running it through phase...
View ArticleThis House would allow donations of vital organs even at the expense of the...
Organ donations are one of the most vital steps of progress made in the field of medicine. Where the failure of a vital organ previously would lead to a person’s imminent death, there is a chance today...
View ArticleIntroduce a “fat tax” (Junior)
The Western World is getting fatter. Obesity and being overweight are the 5th largest cause of death in the world[1].read more
View ArticleThis House believes that private sector involvement is necessary to improve...
The commitment to improving healthcare can be seen by the prevalence of health indicators in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). This has resulted in innovative models, and thinking, on healthcare....
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