“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”

The Center sees the consensual development of a vision for U.S. health care–by groups, communities, the nation–as an essential step for reform. In seeking to practice what we teach, we spent two years working with leaders in our health system to develop a vision for the future of health care.

Here we share a color poster of our vision that you can print or view on your computer.

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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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Author: Jack. W. Glaser, STD

The author maintains that reforming our health care system is a huge challenge, as great in magnitude and as difficult to achieve as abolishing slavery or winning women the right to vote. He argues that we need to begin by stepping back to question what values underpin our nation’s health care system.

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Covering a Nation

Author: Jack W. Glaser, STD

A moral frame is the crisp, pointed presentation of a complex issue that goes to the heart of the matter. In this article, working with this definition, I will argue that:

• “Covering the Uninsured” (CTU), or some variation of that slogan, is the dominant but unexamined moral frame for those of us who seek health care reform in the United States.
• Unfortunately, however, the CTU frame leads us down the wrong path and does significant disservice to the health care reform movement.
• I propose that we frame reform in terms of system, not symptom, along these lines: “Create the system we never built.”

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The 80/20 Law of Organizational Ethics

Author: Jack W. Glaser, STD

In this article I want to explore the interdependent relationship between the ethics of a society and the ethics of organizations that flourish within that society. Specifically, my focus is on how the ethics of U.S. health care shapes and limits the ethics of Catholic health care institutions. My conclusion: long-term, Catholic health ministry will be an empty shell, absent radical reform of U.S. health care.

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Tools for Ethical Discernment: The Ministry Needs Help in Analyzing Health Care Reform Proposals

Author: Jack W. Glaser, STD

“Ethical wisdom is the gift not of ethical experts, but rather, as I have argued in a previous Health Progress article, the gift of the right community—the ‘community of concern.’”

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This website offers community leaders comprehensive tools for engaging a broad cross-section of their community in dialogue about our shared healthcare future. Experience has shown that these dialogues inspire hope in the power of citizen action and generate new thinking for genuine reform.

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