While we often disagree about what Catholic Social Thought means regarding specific public policy proposals, no can disagree that it is unacceptable that over 40 million Americans are uninsured, and therefore lack access to affordable health care. In the hope that health care reform will be an important issue in the upcoming presidential election, Americans for Health Care has prepared a detailed comparison of the health plans of the various candidates, available by signing up here. Americans for Heath Care is the largest grassroots health care reform organization in the U.S. Its aim is to make health care for all Americans a priority in the 2008 presidential election.
In a related vein, recognizing that no plan to increase coverage can be effective without efforts to reduce health care costs, the Commonwealth Fund has just issued a study examining 15 policy options with the potential to reduce health spending. The report is available here.
