“A Primer on the Details of Health Care Reform”
Read an Aug. 9, 2009, New York Times primer on health care reform proposals.
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“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.
“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.
Suzan Johnson Cook
The Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook is a distinguished fellow at the Freedom Forum Institute’s Religious Freedom Center. She served as U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom from 2011 to 2013. Cook is an ordained Baptist pastor.
Darrin Grinder
Darrin Grinder is a professor at Northwest Nazarene University in Boise, Idaho. He co-authored The Presidents and Their Faith: From George Washington to Barack Obama (2012), which examines the religious beliefs of America’s presidents.
Stephen Mansfield
Stephen Mansfield is the author of numerous books on religion and the presidency, including The Faith of Barack Obama and The Faith of George W. Bush. He has also written about the faith of other leaders, including Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.
“So We Are a Christian Nation?”
Read a Jan. 29, 2013, Huffington Post essay, “So We Are a Christian Nation?” in which the author explores the different Christian traditions present in American politics.