5 Questions with Sister Carol Keehan, D.C. on health care reform
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U.S. Catholic Managing Editor Bryan Cones interviews Sister Carol Keehan, D.C., president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association about the latest developments in the push for health care reform. The full interview will appear in the May issue. Order your copy today!
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This is an awesome video.
By thinker (not verified) on Sunday, August 14, 2011This is an awesome video. This interview will inspire everybody.I thank Carol Keehan for her logical answers.Van Wraps Miami
I think we should have a
By Anonymous (not verified) on Saturday, August 13, 2011I think we should have a universal health care system, but I don't think it should be goverment run. The church should be running it. the cost of things like Travel Medical Insurance, and others is so high nowadays that we definitely need some solution to fix the problem for the poor and working poor.
But it shouldn't be the government we rely on. I should be God's people. Instead of spending the tithe on giant buildings and bloated salaries and sound systems, we should take care of each other.
Health Care Reform?
By Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, March 3, 2011Keep my Government out of my Health Care decisions. Look what Government did to Terri Schiavo here in the United States. Look what Socialistic Medicine in Canada is doing. Canadians are not able to choose their own doctor to treat their specific problems, they cannot even get a second opinion within Canada. They actually come to the United States and pay in full for their surgeries, and who continually remind Americans to not vote for Socialistic medicine. their doctors make all the decisions for them, even the decisions of whether you can go home from the hospital or not. It is all done by LAW. Hospitals cannot advance in research under Sister Keehan's theory of Health Care Reform. It is a theory, when results of this theory are observed in the UK, Canada, to name a few, results are horrifying.
For some reason many American Catholics confuse Socialistic medicine as good medicine. They need to read or re-read Pope John Paul II's words in Centesimus Annus (1991), which came out on the Hundredth Anniverary of Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum, where Pope JPII called it an "Immortal document".
Taken from "Centesimus Annus", JPII 1991
"His words (Pope Leo XIII) deserve to be re-read attentively: "To remedy these wrongs (the unjust distribution of wealth and the poverty of the workers), the Socialists encourage the poor man's envy of the rich and strive to do away with private property, contending that individual possessions should become the common property of all...; but their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that, were they carried into effect, the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are moreover emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community".39 The evils caused by the setting up of this type of socialism as a State system — what would later be called "Real Socialism" — could not be better expressed."
Carol Keehan
By Sister Fran Ferder fspa, Ph.D. (not verified) on Friday, January 21, 2011Carol, thank you so much for your courageous and well informed contribution to this often unfocused and anguished debate. Obviously, there is a great deal of misinformation and vitriol out there, as the contributions of some of the writers indicate. I simply want to acknowledge the fact that your statements are based on educated awareness, gospel values and compassion. We--the Catholic church and the nation and the world--need more women of your intelligence and goodness shaping the politics of health care.
Thanks Sister Fran Ferder
By thinker (not verified) on Thursday, August 11, 2011Thanks Sister Fran Ferder fspa for your such an appreciative comment on Carol Keehan's interview. This world really needs women who are talented like her.Yours is the best comment of this page i think.nitric oxide supplements
She is so absorbed in her own
By Anonymous (not verified) on Friday, January 21, 2011She is so absorbed in her own knowledge & understanding of the poor, she thinks nobody can help the poor but her. She is completely ignoring God. Relying one's own understanding & ability will be the demise of her position. Instead, rely and trust in the Lord. Please leave the Catholic Church. Leave it to the Church to help the poor because you are not the answer.
Communism, Anyone?
By Bob (not verified) on Sunday, December 19, 2010Everyone knows that there are problems with the health care systems *everywhere* in the world, BUT the Lying Nun has no appreciation of the GOOD that has just saved my dad's life! Remember Natasha Richardson, who had the misfortune of being in Canada when she suffered her skiing accident. The "hospital" she was taken to, two hous away, HAD NO MEANS TO RELIEVE THE PRESSURE ON HER BRAIN! When she arrived at the next treatment center, again far away, she was brain dead. Thanks socialized medicine!!!
Sr. Carol Keehan's prioities
By Nancy (not verified) on Wednesday, September 8, 2010The children without health insurance have options: State Medicaid, Aid to Infants and Mothers, teaching hospitals/clinics which provide ability-to-pay services, local health departments, community free/low cost clinics, (both religious and secular) Crippled Children's Hospitals, etc. Where there is life, there is hope.
The children who are aborted have no options, and never will. There are millions each year. And no universal health care system will provide the dead any service. Without life, there is not even hope. AND the mother has only regret to live with, now or later.
Ann ever heard of Ailinsky
By Lisa (not verified) on Wednesday, March 24, 2010I have noticed your comments in reply to mine all have the same underlying theme to theme. Considering your talking points of: How can I call myself a Catholic by denying healthcare to the poor, I should be proud of my government for helping the poor, I am an elitist Catholic, and on and on. I must not forget how I am called a republican on a Catholic Blog yet I have never said I was Republican, democrat, or independant! Sounds as though the only way you rebuke my opinion is by trying to paint me as a callous, cynical, selfish person rather than explaining what is wrong with some of the facts or statements I have made.
Please point out how Social Justice applies to the government running everything for I have noticed that charitable organization such as CRS, make better use of accounting and distributing aid to those in need than Government Beaurcrats.
You know CHA is hardly known for having such charitable hospitals.
You make assumptions of how i have been unconcerned for the poor, without knowing who I am or what I actually contribute!
And worst of all making it seem like these nuns are right to defy their bishops using the sex abuse SOME unholy priests did; and that I don't care for the victims! how dare you?!
you put your trust in the most pro-abortion politicians and think the bishops and right to life groups are making things up for something to gain! the only thing they want to gain is that the unborn child is not aborted!
Lisa, First of all, I never
By Ann (not verified) on Sunday, April 18, 2010Lisa,
First of all, I never said what you were an R,D or and I.
Secondly, as to whether you were a callous, cynical, or selfish person that is between you and your conscience.
Thirdly, having charities manage taxpayer money for healthcare for 32 million people would be agreeable if it weren't that somebody would have to manage the charities. There would need to be oversight on these charities so why spend additional money on a middleman.
Fourthly, seeing recent events with the whole sexual abuse scandal in Germany, Ireland, Wisconsin...I don't think the bishops or the Vatican have the moral high ground or the credibility right now to address this issue. Right now, whether it is right or wrong, the church does not have the credibility of addressing the concerns of the flock. They are seen to be protecting the very people who are committing crimes against innocent victims. They need to effectively address this before people can take them seriously on other issues.