Nope, not the policy frontlines, but where people try to navigate the current broken health care system and stay alive. We need to keep stories like this one from the St. Petersburg Times in mind as we watch the wrangling in Washington... Here's a piece of the author's conclusion. Common good, anyone? I believe a nation is best defined by what I call "shared destiny": the goals we collectively embrace, the burdens we collectively share. Is the cost of good health for every American a burden that should be shared by all Americans? Should it matter to all of us when any of us dies a preventable death? HT: Don Lattin

Lisa Fullam is professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. She is the author of The Virtue of Humility: A Thomistic Apologetic (Edwin Mellen Press).

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