Teaser | “McAllen [Texas] …is one of the most expensive health-care markets in the country. Only Miami—which has much higher labor and living costs—spends more per person on health care. In 2006, Medicare spent fifteen thousand dollars per enrollee here, almost twice the national average. The income per capita is twelve thousand dollars. In other words, Medicare spends three thousand dollars more per person here than the average person earns.” What is going on here?

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Read about it | The New Yorker article, “The Cost Conundrum, What a Texas town can teach us about health care,” by Dr. Atul Gawande in the June 1 issue

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Reflect | Which of the people interviewed in the article is most like you? Where, if at all, do you see the dynamics described in this article at play?

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Weigh In | With five clicks, let us know what you think.  After you weigh in, see the results so far.

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Culture Shift invites consideration of deep cultural issues we need to face in order to build a sustainable and just U.S. health system. Read, reflect, weigh in, and converse with others. Through this process of public conscience work, you contribute to reshaping health care for the next generation.

What kind of world do we want to leave the children in our lives and communities? Help your faith community explore this by using the Prayer Tent for Children’s Health Care. The resource includes a six-sided prayer tent as well as six accompanying inserts in both English and Spanish. The tent is also available in Vietnamese.

You can use this over six weeks or as a focused reflection for a week. Created in 2006, faith communities continue to find this resource useful.

| Prayer Tent and Inserts (English): PDF |

| Prayer Tent and Inserts (Spanish): PDF |

| Prayer Tent (Vietnamese): PDF |

Made as the design team was developing the OurHealthcareFuture.org community dialogue, the video “Why Dialogue?” explains the importance of these conversations and offers an overview of the day-long design.  Watch the video in a new window. Watch now.

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What is the role of faith communities in helping create the future of U.S. health care? Here Center founder and theologian Jack Glaser introduces “public conscience work” by faith communities.

The video is part of the series Vision & Voice: Faithful Citizens and Health Care. To watch the video you will be taken to a new window. Watch now.

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