“Surgery for Seniors vs. Abortions?”
Factcheck.org offers analysis of television advertising about health care reform proposals.
Category: Science & health
“Health reform 101: what is in the bills”
Read an Aug. 10, 2009, Christian Science Monitor guide to principal features of health insurance reform proposals.
“Churches step into health care debate”
Read an Aug. 18, 2009, Religion News Service story about the religious element to the health care debate.
“A Primer on the Details of Health Care Reform”
Read an Aug. 9, 2009, New York Times primer on health care reform proposals.
“Health care”
The Washington Post has a page with the latest developments on national health care legislation.
HealthReform.gov
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services explains health care reform at its Web site HealthReform.gov.
Milton C. Sernett
Milton C. Sernett is a history professor in the African-American studies department of Syracuse University. He wrote Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration (Duke University Press, 1997) and has co-chaired the American Academy of Religion’s African American Religious History Group. He has retired from teaching.
“Remarks by the President to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care”
Read the text of the nationally televised address to Congress on health care that the president delivered on Sept. 9, 2009, which opened a major new front in a tough fight to develop and pass a reform package.
“Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address”
In his Jan. 27, 2010 State of the Union address the president pledged to keep fighting for health care reform, though it remained unclear how he and the Democrats would be able to pass a bill.