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THE QUESTION
Health Care for Children
Is health care for children a parental responsibility or a moral imperative for society?
Posted by
Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham on November 1, 2007 11:56 AM
FROM THE PANEL
"The Least of These"
Children are at the very heart of the message of Jesus. At infant dedications or baptisms many Christian ministers recite the words of Jesus' , "Let the children come to me for theirs is the kingdom..." Children's health care is...
Posted by Gabriel Salguero, on November 5, 2007 2:26 PM
Are You Truly Pro-Life?
To have within our borders 9 million children without health care coverage is a moral travesty. Health care coverage for children is a natural extension of a Pro-Life agenda
Posted by Samuel Rodriguez, on November 5, 2007 12:12 PM
Sick Kids Have a Right to Health Care
Medicare is available for the elderly. If kids could vote maybe they would have health care.
Posted by Thomas J. Reese, S.J., on November 5, 2007 11:44 AM
Morally Right and Politically Impossible
We live in a time, to borrow an old expression, of "every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost." Not an era to care much about the health of our children.
Posted by Gustav Niebuhr, on November 5, 2007 9:19 AM
Flabby Morals and Cut Flowers
The Republican side of me says the immoral should suffer.The Democratic side of me says society should protect children from immoral, irresponsible parents.
Posted by Willis E. Elliott, on November 2, 2007 4:59 PM
No Excuses for a Generous Society
A generous society, especially one that claims to be influenced by biblical thought, will find ways to provide where other institutions and agencies do not and cannot.
Posted by Martin Marty, on November 2, 2007 3:58 PM
An Assault on the Common Good
The fact that so many children in this country have no health insurance is, in my view, an assault on the common good.
Posted by William J. Byron, on November 2, 2007 2:23 PM
Children's Health Care: A Prime Moral Imperative
Something is terribly wrong with our values and priorities when we spend billions of dollars to kill and begrudge the cost of healing and care for children, and for adults
Posted by Starhawk, on November 2, 2007 1:04 PM
Only a Sick Society Plays Politics with Children's Health
We have the money to pay for health care insurance for every child in America and instead we are choosing to spend it on making war. That is truly sick, morally sick
Posted by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, on November 1, 2007 2:40 PM
First Parents, Then Community
It is mind-boggling that Hollywood starlets can boost their busts and erase their wrinkles while thousands of children can see medical professionals only in emergency situations
Posted by Pamela K. Taylor, on November 1, 2007 2:26 PM
Best Way to Help 'the Least'
The more parental rights that are ceded to government, the more authority we relinquish to government.
Posted by Cal Thomas, on November 1, 2007 1:55 PM
Health Insurance Should Not Be a Luxury
Surely, this is an issue on which all people of faith and goodwill can come together in order to find a solution that will save lives and reaffirm the dignity of all our children.
Posted by Welton Gaddy, on October 31, 2007 3:11 PM
FEATURED COMMENTS
daniel: Is health care for children a parental responsibility or a moral imperative for society?
At first glance this question seems easy enough to...
Gaby: I grew up in a country with excellent universal health care and many other social advances, like mandatory paid vacation time for employees,...
VICTORIA: this is an issue that shouldn't, but has become a division along party lines.
however, republicans have noticed that their own party under...
