The Presbyterian General Assembly made some important decisions regarding healthcare. By a vote of 377 to 250 the General Assembly approved that the entities of the PC(USA) “advocate for, educate about, and otherwise pursue the goal of obtaining legislation that enacts single-payer, universal national health insurance as the program that best responds to the moral imperative of the gospel.”
Presbyterians and Universal Health Care
Published July 5, 2008 Capitol Hill , health care , religion 3 CommentsTags: HR676, single payer
This is shocking. This is the real, fundamental threat of the Christian movement: not fish signs on cars or happy clappy music now and then, but the destruction of human rights. Christianity empowers old collectivist movements, and we need to recognise this as a real threat.
How would passing Medicare for All threaten human rights? The right to go bankrupt and die?
Just because some TV Hairdos for Christ have behaved badly doesn’t mean we should fear churches or religious people.
Did you see the Bunk study stating 2/3 of doctors in America want National Health Care. The doctors who did this study also conducted one in 2002 and found that the majority of doctors did not want national health care, the problem with this is that the 2 question surveys drastically differ in there 2nd question. I found this article, 60% of Physicians Surveyed Oppose Switching to a National Health Care Plan, It’s worth a read.