The fate of former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, and its coverage and insurance protections for millions of Americans, is again being argued before a panel of judges — this time a federal appeals court in New Orleans.
Health Care
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Church experts: Vaccines preserve ‘moral health’ of communities
Doctors, physicians and immunologists have come forward to debunk the loud din of the anti-vaccination movement, and the Catholic Church has joined them.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
The Vanier model for living with the disabled takes root
At a new residential complex in North Carolina, graduate students and adults with developmental disabilities share living quarters and meet in prayer.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
New York ends religious exemption to vaccine mandates
The nation’s worst measles outbreak in decades is prompting states to reconsider giving parents ways to opt out of immunization rules.
Posted inCommunity
Healthcare on the margins
America and SOMOS Community Care will host a conversation on healthcare on the margins.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Sister Carol Keehan is leaving the Catholic Health Association. Here’s what she thinks about U.S. health care.
After 14 years at the helm of the Catholic Health Association, Sister Carol Keehan is ready to let others lead—but she still has strong opinions about the importance of Catholic hospitals and the state of U.S. health care.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
Health care isn’t about statistics or abstractions. It’s about people.
The subject of every public policy question is a person, created and redeemed through love, writes Matt Malone, S.J.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
For prison inmates, health care comes slowly and unpredictably
The paramount concern of all prisons is safety. This is understandable, but it still seems unfair when security eclipses the health and well-being of inmates, writes John T. Booth.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The secret history of Catholic caregivers and the AIDS epidemic
Many stories of ordinary people responding to suffering in extraordinary fashion have not yet been captured in forms that will last.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The unhealthy state of U.S. health care
The costs of medicine in the United States are addressed in different, though complementary, ways in two new books on broken U.S. health care.