Information on new health care provisions
What’s in it for the PC(USA)? An analysis of the newly enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act
- On Access to Care
- On Vulnerable Communities (coming soon)
- On Government-sponsored Health Coverage (coming soon)
Information from the faith community
- Faithful Reform in Health Care – The Heart in Health Care
- A Moral Vision for Our Health Care Future: Reflections on "A Faith-Inspired Vision of Health Care" and Health Care Reform
- Process and Politics of Health Care Reform: Why is health care reform so difficult (from a moral perspective?)
- The Impact of Health Care Reform on Communities of Faith and Their Leaders
- Mennonite Central Committee – Health Care Fact Sheet #1, Young Adults
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Health Care Resources
- United Methodist Church – John 10:10 Challenge
- United Church of Christ – Don’t Put a Period on Health Care
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What does our church, the PC(USA) say about health care reform? Why aren't the individual churches and pastors proclaiming this from the pulpit, from the entrance to our churches! Where are the letters to the editor in all the local newspapers? Where is our national leadership? Why aren't they out there proclaiming God's victory to service those in need? The Stated Clerk should be out there and appearing on national talk shows, and cable shows like Countdown and the Ed Show. In 1988 the PC (USA) affirmed that "Jesus' command to love our neighbor requires persons with plentiful health resources both to comprehend the condition of those persons without basic health care and to share the means to health." (Minutes, 1988, p. 517) For more than 60 years, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assemblies have been calling for reform of the U.S. health system, urging the establishment of a national medical plan that will ensure health coverage for all persons residing in the United States. The most recent General Assembly (2008) "endorse[d] in principle the provision of single-payer universal health care reform in which health care services are privately provided and publicly financed ... as the program that best responds to the moral imperative of the gospel." (Minutes, 2008, p. 1133) Praise God for the USA finally taking the words of Matthew 25 to heart and serving our sick and ill people! God has again blessed our country by providing the leadership of our President, our Speaker of the House, and our Senate Majority Leader, and our Congressional Democrats! Why weren’t all the Presbyterians in Congress, people like Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, willing to serve Jesus and provide health care for all?