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What Does Your Faith Community Say About Medicare …

WEBAs we wrote in the January 16th issue of Faith in Healthcare, a Medicare for All system would be a manifestation of our faiths’ shared call for …

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A Buddhist Approach to Healthcare Advocacy

WEBIssues like whether Medicare approves a drug impact standards of care—and countless lives. As for any healthcare issue, approaching end …

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The Human Right to Healthcare in a Time of Pandemic: …

WEBHere is how Allyson McKinney Timm described the conversation for Justice Revival:. In This Together. The Human Right to Health Care in the Time …

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“Saving a Life is Like Saving All Mankind”: Muslim Free …

WEBThe scene in Indianapolis is replicated each week in more than 70 Muslim-led free clinics across the country. A new study by Nabil Khan of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Lance Laird of the …

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Patients Rising: Persons with Diabetes Are Leading the …

WEBThis activism must be patient-led if it is going to be successful, says James Elliott, a T1International trustee living with Type 1. “We have seen so many health campaigns come and go, on insulin as well as other issues. The …

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Five Questions with Arshia Wajid of American Muslim …

WEBArshia Wajid, MPH, MBA, is the founder of American Muslim Health Professionals, which on April 20th is co-hosting with the Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health a National …

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Sister Barbara Battista: Providing Healthcare While …

WEBThe Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has found that private Medicare Advantage insurers have been combing patients' medical charts to look for indications of serious illnesses that would …

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Rabbi Michael Knopf: Jewish Tradition & Healthcare as …

WEBRabbi Michael Knopf came to the attention of Faith in Healthcare through a March, 2017 article he wrote for the legendary Jewish publication The Forward. In “Would Judaism Want Us to Repeal and Replace …

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About Faith in Healthcare FHC

WEBHe and Jessie Howenstine and Chris Stack, MD are the co-founders of Faith in Healthcare, previously known as People of Faith for Access to Medicines. Please contact Fran, …

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News and Noteworthy FHC

WEBOur Faith in Healthcare editor this week published articles profiling Rev. Angela Cowser, a Presbyterian minister, Louisville Seminary associate dean, and co-chair of the Institute …

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New Study Does the Math: Yes, We Can Afford Medicare for All

WEBUnder Medicare for All, premiums, co-pays, and deductibles that cause so much suffering and even death will disappear. In their place will be government investment of $1.05 …

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Liberation Theology Responds to Pandemic FHC

WEBThroughout the last 40 years, hospital beds have been cut, healthcare has been privatized more in this country, health care workers have been treated poorly. Very simply, …

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From Cancer Patient to Medicines Activist FHC

WEBNew cancer treatments average a whopping $10,000 per month. Many patients can’t afford that, even though it is likely their taxpayer dollars paid to develop …

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Five-Question Interview with Zenei Cortez, RN, of National Nurses

WEBNational Nurses United has been a leading voice in the Medicare for All movement, bringing the moral power and practical insight that comes from their members’ daily service on …

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American Healthcare Horror Stories: An Incomplete Inventory

WEBAxios reports that 52% of all Medicaid spending now goes to health insurance companies--$307 billion in 2018. That is a steep increase from about 20% of Medicaid dollars as …

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Five-Question Interview with Sofia Adawy, M.D., Clinic Director of …

WEBSofia Adawy, M.D., is the Health Clinic director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), a community organization that fosters health, wellness and healing in the inner …

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Five-Question Interview with Doug Beach, National Alliance on …

WEBDoug Beach is the chairperson of the FaithNet Advisory Group for National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization. …

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Trump-Pence Attack on Healthcare Challenged at its Roots, Part One

WEBThis article by our editor, co-published in the Health and Human Rights Journal, tells the story of two ambitious politicians who set out a few years ago to undercut Medicaid in …

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Five Questions for Mehreen Karim FHC

WEBMehreen Karim is an educator with HEART Women and Girls, which promotes sexual health and sexual violence awareness in Muslim communities. She is the former Digital …

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Five-Question Interview with Amy Hale, MD

WEBAmy Hale, MD is an active member of First Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Indiana, and a primary care physician at VIMCare Clinic, formerly known as Volunteers in Medicine, …

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