Health Care in America Ethical and Relig
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America's foundational promise of caring for the vulnerable collides starkly with its modern healthcare reality, where 41 million citizens remain uninsured and countless immigrants are denied basic medical services. The moral weight of this crisis emerges vividly through a comparative analysis of two 1938 events: New York State's pioneering constitutional amendment guaranteeing public care for the needy, and the devastating Kristallnacht pogrom in Nazi Germany - moments that crystallized opposing visions of society's obligations to its marginalized members. Through historical examination of healthcare's evolution from religious charitable institutions to today's cost-focused system, deep contradictions surface between Judeo-Christian ethical mandates and current exclusionary policies. Hebrew biblical texts, particularly Micah 6:6-8's prophetic vision, reveal how authentic religious practice demands prioritizing social justice and compassion over ritual observance. The research employs comparative historical methodology to demonstrate how contemporary American healthcare policies fundamentally betray the inclusive ethic of Judeo-Christian heritage, which commands care for strangers and society's most vulnerable. Without meaningfully reintegrating these religious values into policy discourse, exclusionary healthcare practices will continue undermining America's core moral principles and democratic ideals.

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Published 1999
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Ismar Schorsch