Elise Amez-Droz: Those Treacherous “Essential” and “Nonessential” Labels
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Our guest is Elise Amez-Droz, program manager for the Open Health program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where she also manages the health policy portfolio. Ms. Amez-Droz is a Public Policy Fellow with the Fund for American Studies and a member of the Millennial Cohort of American Enterprise Institute’s Leadership Network.
SHOW NOTES
The Mercatus Center website
“Labeling Us ‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’ Makes Us Less Human” (Discourse Magazine)
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