Reading on health care reform

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Since there has been some much talk about health care reform lately, I simply decided to gather links to the many statements, articles, and so on here for your reading pleasure.

We'll try to keep it updated, and be sure to check out our special section on health care as well. We put it together when this debate started last year, so it needs some updating, but there are still some good resources there.

I'm sorry for the lack of formatting, but there is so much that this is easiest and quickest!

 

FROM THE BISHOPS:

Abortion facts in health care reform

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Should health care reform pass, it seems, from what some are saying, that pregnant women across the country will be running out to get abortions. It will be as if abortion became legal all over again!

Health care reform now or never?

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Today's bipartisan meeting on health care reform at the White House had Americans wondering if it was all a show or if the (small d) democratic process of debate and give-and-take is still possible.

The Great Recession hits immigrant workers harder

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The Migration Policy Center just released a study on the impact of the “great recession” on immigrant workers in comparison to native workers. Since the early 90s they had fared better. But in 2007 that trend began to reverse – even before the downturn in the economy. Now the immigrant is more likely to be jobless.

Immigration and the House health care reform bill

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Last Saturday the U.S. House of Representatives passed a comprehensive health care insurance bill. Controversy over abortion was highlighted in the press with its narrow passage, especially the clout exercised by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. But the bishops had another agenda item in regard to the bill -- extension of benefits to all immigrants. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus successfully pressured Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with help of the USCC, to protect most rights of immigrants.

Death panels versus hospice

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Under Obama's health care reform, critics say, "death panels" will decide who gets to live and who gets to die. Unfortunately, this scare tactic could mean no funding for a program many Catholics seem to think important: hospice care.

In theory at least, Catholics like to look at death as a natural part of life, as a point of transition and not an end. But at the same time, we all want to be alive, and death can be scary.

Obama asks people of faith for help

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Oh Canada!

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Lord knows the health care reform movement could break down over the coming months in a number of different ways, but one tired old rhetorical avenue should be, one can only hope, permanently closed offduring this latest effort to fix the out-of-control-cost-wise-and-deeply-dysfunctional-all-otherwise American way of health care: that is the old bogeyman of yelling "Canada!" in a crowded operating theater whenever reform efforts begin to gain traction.