Health care as a social good : religious values and American democracy

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Label

Health care as a social good : religious values and American democracy

Title remainder

religious values and American democracy

Statement of responsibility

David M. Craig

Creator

• Craig, David M., 1948-

Subject

• Health care reform
• Health care reform -- United States
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
• Political planning
• Political planning -- United States
• Public Policy
• RELIGION -- General
• Religion
• Social justice
• Social justice -- United States
• Social values
• Social values -- United States
• United States
• United States
• Religion

Language

eng

Summary

David M. Craig traveled across the United States to assess health care access, delivery and finance in this country. He interviewed religious hospital administrators and interfaith activists, learning how they balance the values of economic efficiency and community accountability. He met with conservatives, liberals, and moderates, reviewing their ideas for market reform or support for the Affordable Care Act. He discovered that health care in the US is not a private good or a public good. Decades of public policy and philanthropic service have made health care a shared social good. Health Care as a Social Good: Religious Values and the American Democracy argues that as escalating health costs absorb more and more of family income and government budgets, we need to take stock of the full range of health care values to create a different and more affordable community-based health care system. Transformation of that system is a national priority but Americans have failed to find a way to work together that bypasses our differences. Craig insists that community engagement around the common religious conviction that healing is a shared responsibility can help us achieve this transformation--one that will not only help us realize a new and better system, but one that reflects the ideals of American democracy and the common good

Member of

• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

362.10973

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

RA418.3.U6

LC item number

C73 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

WA 540 AA1