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A Perfect Enemy
Sale, Kirkpatrick | May 23, 1994 issue

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No one doubts that the multi-trillion-dollar economy of the U.S. in the years after World War II was financed by the fear of the great enemy, Communism. But now, it has been discovered that the enemy is no more. Communism is over. Quite clearly then, from an economic point of view, the country needs a new enemy. It seems the country have found one. A perfect enemy, in many respects better than the last is the death. The national death-the-enemy attitude is just beginning to pervade the culture. But it is in the debate about a national health policy that death and dying is most often and ardently presented as the new enemy.

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MEDICAL policy; DEATH; SOCIAL policy; PUBLIC health; COMMUNISM; UNITED States
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