What Catholics Need to Know about Health Care Reform

The debate on health care reform continues to focus on the political, technical, and economic repercussions of various proposals. What cannot get lost in this debate, however, are the moral implications.

Health care is about life and death. Because health care reform has real consequences, decisions must be evaluated through a prism of fundamental ethical principles to see how they will impact the dignity and value of each human life.

What Catholics Need to Know about Health Care Reform includes interesting facts regarding what Americans want in health care, the challenges of our political system in getting what is needed and wanted in our health care, and the four principles needed for health care reform.