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Health Care

Health care reform is a general term used for discussing major health policy creation or changes-for the most part, governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts to:
  • Broaden the population that receives health care coverage through either public sector insurance programs or private sector insurance companies
  • Expand the array of health care providers consumers may choose among
  • Improve the access to health care specialists
  • Improve the quality of health care
  • Decrease the cost of health care 

Health care is still a major issue, not only for many Americans, but for our sisters and brothers throughout the world. Three of the UN Millennium Development Goals involve health care: child health, maternal health and combat AIDS/HIV.  Find out the current status of these goals here:  MORE
The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was signed into law by President Obama on March 30, 2010.  The US government has created a helpful website to help explain the new law and how it affects each of us: http://www.healthcare.gov/

What You Can Do: 

Through the UN website you can -
Send a malaria-preventing bed net to Africa.
Donate $5 to help a girl with access to school supplies, clean water, or life-saving health services.
Help end fistula, a childbirth injury affecting an estimated 2 million women in developing countries.
Donate $1 to immunize a child against polio  

INTERNET RESOURCES 

Faithful Reform in Healthcare

Catholic Health Association
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