Health Care Background Reading

Statements and Guides from Faith Groups

Combined resource guide: American Baptist, Church of the Brethren, Disciples of Christ (Christian Church), Congress of National Black churches, Episcopal church, Evangelical Covenant Church, Free Methodist Church, Mennonite Church, Presbyterian (USA), Progressive national Baptist Convention, Seventh-Day Adventist Church in North America, United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, African Methodist Episcopal, Church of the Nazarene, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, General Baptist State Convention of NC, Wesleyan
www.hmassoc.org

African Methodist Episcopal Churches - Health Plan (Seventh District)

American Baptist

California Council of Churches
Being the Good Samaritan: Health Access for All Californians
California Council of Churches congregational study guide, 2005
Available from CCC at 4044 Pasadena Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95821
916.488.7300
PDF version for download:

Communities of Christ Health Ministries Association

Disciples of Christ - 2007 resolution on children's health care

ELCA
"Caring for Health: Our Shared Endeavor"
Evangelical Lutheran Church of America study guide

See online at:

Episcopal Church, USA Statement on Health Care (1991)

Episcopal Church, USA Statement on Health Care (2003)

Presbyterian Church USA Statement on Health Care
"Life Abundant-Values, Choices and Health Care: The Responsibility and Role of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

National Health Ministries

United Church of Christ
Health Ministry

United Methodist Church - Faith Statement on Health Care
(2001)
http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/work/health/community-health/
and
www.umc-gbcs.org/site/pp.asp?c=fsJNK0PKJrH&b=861341

General Literature on American Health Care

Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price
by Jonathan Cohn

The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement--And How You Can Fight Back
by Jacob S. Hacker

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
By Harriet A. Washington

The Truth About Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
by David Mechanic

Health Care Politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform
by Robert Alford

A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care
by Dr. Arnold Relman