Getting Beyond the Politics

Competing views on the ethical dimensions of health care

A panel of two physicians
and two ministers

Do we understand the real problems?

Who is being left out and why?

What are the actual barriers to health care?

If health care rationing is here already, what does it look like and how should it change?

Can health care reform be separated from partisan politics?

What should be the responsibility of each individual and what should be shared responsibility?

Do we see health care as a right for every American?

Is  anything wrong with deciding that it is not a governmental responsibility to provide healthcare to everyone?

How could Christian concepts of justice inform us?

Or Christian concepts of human dignity & wholeness?
…compassion?
…stewardship?

Panelists:

The Reverend Gina Bethune
Manager of Chaplain Services & Director of Clinical Pastoral Education, Seton Family of Hospitals

The Reverend Julie Wood
Chaplain & minister, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Director of the Texas Bible Chair

Sarah Legett, MD
Medical Director of the Palliative Care Program, Dell Children’s Medical Center

Chris Ziebell, MD
Director of Emergency Care,
University Medical Center Brackenridge
                      
Moderator:
The Reverend Dr. Chuck Kutz-Marks
Senior Minister
University Christian Church

Links of interest:

"A Faith-Inspired Vision of Health Care"

"Health Care Reform 2009, How Legislative Proposals Measure Up to 'A Faith-Inspired Vision of Health Care'"

"Theological Statement on Health Care" by the Los Angeles Council of Religious Leaders, Health Care Task Force.