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Article: The ethical foundations of health care reform. (includes related article on faith groups and health care) (Cover Story)
- Article from:
- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
- Author:
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Our health care system contains much of which we should be proud and much that we should conserve. It has enlisted the devotion of millions of professionals, created splendid hospitals, clinics and research institutions, and dazzled the world with its technical achievements. And it has allowed for some choice in doctors. Any reform of the system must preserve its virtues.
Yet our health care system is seriously flawed. It fails to reach many of us: at any given time, it excludes over one-seventh of the population (about 40 million people) from health care insurance; it leaves another one-seventh under-insured. The consequences for individuals and families are ...