Update: Evaluating the Health Reform Bills from a Faith Perspective
How Legislative Proposals Measure Up to A Faith-Inspired Vision of Health Care
[Now you can also download How the Public Health Insurance Option Measures Up to "A Faith-Inspired Vision of Health Care".]
People of faith who care about making comprehensive and compassionate health care reform a reality in the U.S. are always seeking ways to talk about the issue in a way that transcends political partisanship. When we are at our best, we seek and nurture opportunities to dialogue about the issue through the lens of our faith values and the measure of social justice.
A new resource--How Legislative Proposals Measure Up to A Faith-Inspired Vision of Health Care- - is now available to guide this discourse. Written by Rev. Linda Hanna Walling, Executive Director of Faithful Reform in Health Care, this resource emerges from years of collaboration, conversation, and dialogue with the many faith leaders and organizations that make up the Faithful Reform in Health Care coalition.It starts and ends with the values found in "A Faith-Inspired Vision of Health Care."
This initial essay is the first of several essays that will be prepared over the coming weeks as the legislative process moves forward. The next piece, coming in a day or so, will measure the Public Health Insurance Option against the Vision Statement. The document will be expanded to include the Senate proposal and the final bill. It is not intended to pick apart the details, but to help guide people of faith in their efforts to move our legislators toward the best bill possible to reform U.S. health care.
Download "How Legislative Proposals Measure Up to A Faith-Inspired Vision of Health Care"
Download "How The Public Health Insurance Option Measures Up to A Faith-Inspired Vision of Health Care"
Sign the Faith-Inspired Vision Statement
