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Victor Fuchs draws on a deep understanding
of the strengths and limitations of economics and his intimate
knowledge of health care institutions to help readers understand
the problems every nation faces in trying to allocate health
resources efficiently and equitably.
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Judaism and Disability: Portrayals in
Ancient Texts from the Tanach through the Bavli document
attitudes toward disabled people in the earliest centuries
of this ancient culture.
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In this book Dr. Bob LeBow tackles this
monumental issue with clarity and forthrightness. His prescription
for our health care quagmire is a national health program
which includes universal coverage, as is the case in every
other industrialized country.
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Project Chessed is a Jewish Family
Service program that connects the medically uninsured
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SAN FRANCISCO Supes give final OK to health care coverage
Cecilia M. Vega, Chronicle Staff Writer
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously gave final approval Tuesday July 25th to a plan to provide health care coverage to the city's uninsured residents. This ambitious effort is nearly a year away from becoming reality and still could face legal challenges.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/26/BAGCTK5I021.DTL
Dr Benjamin Amick and Rabbi Samuel Karff
This program transforms the work of health care professionals to a "sacred vocation", one that helps those who work in a hospital to see themselves as healers and to appreciate that being a "healer" is part of what gives meaning to a person's life.
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Health
Care Requires Resuscitation
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Jewish Journal -This article responds
to the continuing crisis in this country of millions
of Americans without health insurance.
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End of Life Care: Why Has It Been So Difficult?
Ten essays by some of the most
influential thinkers who helped shape the ethical and
legal framework for end-of-life care over the past 20
years.
In May 1993, President Bill Clinton brought the results of the White
House Task Force on Health Care Reform to Congress in the form of legislation.
At that time, American Jewish groups proposed resolutions on healthcare
in support of access to affordable and equitable healthcare.
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/news/features/eoldecade.asp
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Lasting
Wishes
Marshall S. Zola
There is no simple solution to
the complex problem of determining future medical decisions.
Zola discusses the California Health Care Decisions Law
passed in July 2000 and the challenge that it requires
to balance the interests of many different parties.
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Judaism
and Health Care Reform
USCJ Position Paper & Resource
Guide
The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
The United Synagogue of Conservative
Judaism
http://www.uscj.org/HealthHealth_Care_Re5336.html |
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Adopted
Resolutions
Adopted at the 62nd General
Assembly
October, 1993
San Francisco, CA
Reform of the health care system.
http://www.urj.us/cgi-bin/resodisp.pl?file=healthcare&year=1993o |
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URJ NFTY
The National Federation of
Temple Youth, of the Union for Reform Judaism
For the 2005-2006 year, NFTYites
all over North America will be closely examining problems
in our world’s healthcare systems and identifying
reasons why so many human beings do not have access to
proper healthcare. The action theme, R’fuah Sh’leimah
: The Renewal of Mind, Body, and Spirit, centers on healthcare,
mental health, and substance abuse from a social justice
perspective.
http://urj.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=8312&pge_prg_id=32563&pge_id=4314 |
