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  • Health Care as a Social Good

  • Religious Values and American Democracy
  • By: David M. Craig
  • Narrated by: Josh Andersen
  • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins

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Health Care as a Social Good

By: David M. Craig
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Summary

David M. Craig traveled across the United States to assess health care access, delivery, and finance in this country. He interviewed religious hospital administrators and interfaith activists, learning how they balance the values of economic efficiency and community accountability. He discovered that health care in the US is not a private good or a public good. Decades of public policy and philanthropic service have made health care a shared social good.

Health Care as a Social Good: Religious Values and American Democracy argues that as escalating health costs absorb more and more of family income and government budgets, we need to take stock of the full range of health care values to create a different and more affordable community-based health care system. Transformation of that system is a national priority but Americans have failed to find a way to work together that bypasses our differences. Craig insists that community engagement around the common religious conviction that healing is a shared responsibility can help us achieve this transformation - one that will not only help us realize a new and better system, but one that reflects the ideals of American democracy and the common good.

The book is published by Georgetown University Press.

©2014 Georgetown University Press (P)2017 Redwood Audiobooks
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Critic reviews

"Taking a novel and helpful approach to health care policy debates...this tour of our current health care system offers readers an unusual opportunity to rethink how and why we organize health care delivery as we do." (Political Science Quarterly)
"A rare, and needed, perspective." (Religious Studies Review)

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