What We Really Talk About When We Talk About Health Care
What looks like discussion about deductibles and co-pays, preventative treatment, and end-of-life care, is really about something else entirely. And then there’s all the yelling.
View ArticleFearmongering? Yes, But the Fear is Here
The debate about health has turned into a debate about death. Why has our heath care debate shifted so easily and so quickly into a fright-fest concerned with the care we owe to the dead and dying?
View ArticleHealth Care as Moral Drama
Myths of good versus evil have long sustained conservatism, but these narratives, with their shining heroes, and dastardly evildoers, are irrelevant to the civil debates at hand, and threaten to...
View ArticleThe Problem With Solving The Abortion Problem
One reason we don't hear from "those who actually minister to real people with real problems" is that conservatives have successfully defined "people of faith" as abortion opponents
View ArticleThe Power of Bad Faith! Prophesying a “Death Panel” for Health Care Reform
The tragedy of this health care debate is that the protesters won’t be the only ones who lose access to care—we all will.
View ArticleWithout Health Care Reform We’ll All Die!!
The truth is that Americans’ lives and wallets are both in danger if we don’t reform health care. A proposal to out-negative the naysayers.
View ArticleWhen Words Kill: A Health Care Glossary
Euthanasia, end-of-life, death with dignity, assisted suicide: these mean entirely different things depending on whom you consult. The health care debates have enormously high stakes, and yet we don’t...
View ArticleHealth Care Post-Mortem: Left is Right, Right is Left and Public is Loser
So long as the health care battle is focused on the model of market competition—the very notion that health care is best conceived as a for-profit industry—the whole debate is a non-starter. If a...
View ArticleMobilizing Religious Progressives on Health Care
The President is reaching out to faith leaders to help reframe the health care debates in moral terms, and religious progressives are heeding the call(s).
View ArticleAmerican Brokenness: A Lament
Conservatives in this country are undergoing an existential crisis, but this is not the time for liberals to sit by smugly and watch.
View ArticleConservative ‘Cafeteria Catholics’ Favor Opposition to Gay Marriage Over...
As the debate over gay marriage is reignited in New Jersey, the local Roman Catholic bishops threw themselves in with a zeal they have yet to display in the fight for universal health care, despite...
View ArticleThe Silence of Religious Voices in the Health Care Debates
The national conversation about health care has been about everything but care, or compassion, for those truly in need. Isn’t it simply wrong for religious leaders to sit this one out?
View ArticleMythmaking 101, or, Why We Believe in Death Panels
Forget what you learned about myth from Joseph Campbell—this death panel rumor is the real deal: values masquerading as truth, all in service of one heckuva group fantasy.
View ArticleThe Endgame on Health Reform: Religious Progressives Need to Keep Critical...
Is Universal Coverage the only moral touchstone in health care reform? Religious progressives need to think again.
View ArticleWhy Are Some Religious Progressives Reinforcing the Religious Right on...
And for that matter, why is an influential blogger writing straight from dubious press releases?
View ArticleAre Prominent Liberal Religious Figures Willing to Reveal Their Positions?...
A right-wing blogger has a run-in with the “progressive evangelical” on abortion and leaves confused. He’s not alone.
View ArticleWill Pro-Life Democrats Kill Health Care Reform?
Or is the opposition just to provide cover for them?
View ArticleCatholic Bishops to Use Mass to Lobby Against Health Care?
Both pro-choice and pro-life supporters of health care reform must speak out against this immoral use of religious services.
View ArticleBad Religion Leaves Big Bruises: When Christians Threaten Health Care Reform
Two strands of Christianity battle against a bill ensuring that all Americans are cared for. One prefers John Locke to Jesus while the other has its issues with women.
View ArticleThe Fretting About Whether Democrats Are “Friendly” To Religion
Instead of worrying about making friends, pols should focus on greater transparency and separation of church and state.
View ArticleA New Year’s Health Care Sobriety Test for Religious Progressives: It’s Not...
Responsible religious leaders need to stay sober and stop cheerleading for the Democrats and for the Obama White House just because they’re not total Visigoths.
View ArticleBedside Manners: The Broken Spirituality of Contemporary US Medical Practice
Sparked by his elderly mother’s impersonal medical care, our writer laments the fact that doctors aren’t spending nearly enough time listening to and getting to know their patients and its implications...
View ArticleCatholic Bishops Fan Fire of Irrelevancy
Having followed someone else's lie about healthcare and abortion the US Bishops ought to think long and hard about the immigration fight.
View ArticleHealth Care Acrimony Will Only Get Worse
Has the incivility and outright hostility finally wound down, or is it just getting started?
View ArticleAmericans Are Overtreated to Death
Real hope isn't that the therapeutic cavalry will coming riding over the hill at the last moment.
View ArticleWhy Can’t We Take Death Seriously? The Obama Administration’s Latest Retreat
The truth is that the administration simply caved before the still potent specter of so-called “Death Panels”—a specter created last year by the likes of Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and other...
View ArticleIf Abortion Isn’t Health Care, What is It?
Republican Congressman Chris Smith, a conservative Catholic, introduces “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," says abortion is "not health care."
View ArticleHow to Die in America: A Conversation with Ann Neumann
Nobody likes to talk about death. And when we do talk about it, we romanticize...
View ArticleWhy Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”
This morning’s presidential signing of an executive order “promoting free speech and religious liberty” isn’t the...
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