Health Care Debate

Thank you Fr. Araujo for linking us to Peter Singer's article on health care.  I hope to have more to say on that later.  Denise Hunnell, who has a certification in health care ethics with the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, has posted some interesting thoughts on the health care question at her blog where you can read her full post.  Here is the beginning:

President Obama is ready to drop over one trillion dollars on a health care reform initiative. Let me be clear. Every human being is entitled to basic health care. Our current health care system is not doing an adequate job of providing basic health care to every American. However, I am not an impulse shopper. I want to know what I am getting for my money. We do not know what we are getting with this health care initiative, because the health care is yet to be determined by a Benefits Advisory Council. Let me clarify what we do know and more importantly what we do not know. ...