Anabaptist Center for Healthcare Ethics

Healthcare Access Sunday

Church Statements and Related Resources

Healthcare Access Resolution adopted by Mennonite Church USA delegates in Charlotte, North Carolina, July 2005.

Mennonite Church, 1993, Resolution on Health Care in the United States & General Conference Mennonite Church U.S. Assembly, 1992, A Resolution on Health Care

Church of the Brethren, 1989, Statement on Health Care in the United States

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Caring for Health: Our Shared Endeavor

Seeking Justice in Health Care: A Guide for Advocates in Faith Communities from Universal Health Care Action Network

American Baptist, Resolution on Health Care for All

Proposed Access Resolution (dated December 2004).

Sermons and Theological Reflections

Cover the Uninsured Week Sermons and Worship Resources

Sermon by Rev. Jackson H. Day "Getting to the "G" Word"

Sermon by Douglas Kaufman "Justice and Health Care Access"

Health Care Justice - What It Looks Like to Women by Rev. Marjorie Signer

Universal Health Care, A Faith Agenda by Bishop Leontine T. C. Kelly

Quotes, Resolutions, and Policy Statements from various Faith Communities

The Jewish Mandate for Health Care by Rabbi Jonathan M. Brown

Medical Coverage for All by Rabbi Chuck Briskin

Theological Grounding as an Ethical Imperative from the Ohio Council of Churches

Why Should People of Faith Care about Health Care Reform? by Bernadine Grant McRipley
Worship and Study Resources

Children’s Lesson Plan: "God’s Blessing: 'Water' Shared by Community"

Children’s Lesson Plan: The Parable of the Good Samaritan

Youth Lesson Plan: The Parable of the Good Samaritan

Health Care Access Presentation by Health Care Task Force of St. Noel Catholic Church

Interfaith Litany of Prayer and Reflection Adapted from resources in the 2003 Cover the Uninsured Week Interfaith Kit

Prayers
News Items

Health spending rises at blistering pace. by: Julie Appleby From: USA TODAY, February 21, 2006

Free Clinics Pop Up to Deal With Uninsured. by: Candice Choi. From: Forbes.com, February 18, 2006

Healthcare costs a major obstacle to hiring: survey. Reuters, February 16, 2006

Drugmakers to Cut Off Some Free Prescriptions: Seniors, Disabled Face Big Financial Crunch. by: Ceci Connolly From: The Washington Post, January 27, 2006

America's health-care crisis: Desperate measures. From The EconomistJanuary 26th 2006

OP-ED: Health Care Confidential. By Paul Krugman from The New York Times, January 27, 2006

Survey Shows Business Leaders Believe Employees Will Shoulder More of Their Health Care Costs. Report on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey. September 14, 2005

The Moral-Hazard Myth: The bad idea behind our failed health-care system. By Malcolm Gladwell from The New Yorker, August 29, 2005 issue

Can we now talk about healthcare? By Hillary Rodham Clinton from New York Times Magazine, April 18, 2004

Faith groups aim to create uproar for uninsured by National Catholic Reporter, May 7, 2004

Rising Cost of Health Benefits Cited as Factor in Slump of Jobs -- New York Times, August 19, 2004

Higher Costs, Less Care Data Show Crisis In Health Insurance, Washington Post, Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Health Care Impacts Everyone, The News Leader, October 23, 2004

The Health of Nations, New York Times, October 24, 2004, OP-ED: Donald Barlett and James Steele, editors at large at Time and the authors, most recently, of "Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business-And Bad Medicine."

Health Insurance Gap Persists Among Latino, Black and White Americans, Health System Change, October 28, 2004

Health Care Squeeze, Washington Post, November 01, 2004

States Are Battling Against Wal-Mart Over Health Care, New York Times, November 01, 2004

Study details gap in death rate by race; health care disparities blamed, American Medical News, December 20, 2004

Absurd Report On Drug Prices Clouds the Issue, Washington Post, December 29, 2004

Fact Sheets and other resources
A quiz about the facts and myths of the U.S. health care system

Fact Sheets from Cover the Uninsured Week -- basic information on the issue of health care coverage in America, particularly on Americans who do not have health insurance.