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[…] my complete post over at the World Health Care Blog. Posted in WorldHealthCareBlog, Globalization, […]

[…] Soft Power and U.S. Health Care Revisited by Fred Fortin, World Health Care Blog, June 12, 2007 I’ve argued previously that every health care issue confronting us today has underlying global aspects. And while the health care services we receive appear to be local, each drug, patient record, and operating room is the culmination of a complicated international exchange we need to better understand. I also asked the question of whether a U.S. global health care aid policy could help in repairing the U.S.’s image in the world as part of a new ’soft power’ strategy…. […]

[…] Reading DHHS Secretary Mike Leavitt’s new blog, and his accounts of his travels through Rwanda and South Africa, has reinforced in my mind the humanitarian and strategic value of health care as a positive focus for the projection of America’s ’soft power’ in the world (see my previous posts here and here). […]

this article urges the imperative that we need to supply health care to repair low soft power reserves, but I believe the true reason care is need is the value of human life that is being lost everyday. Moral Imperative is a better motivator of aid reform, and should be considered

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