Posted on 05/01/2008 11:29:46 PM PDT by neverdem
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WHO: Robert Moffit
WHEN: Friday, May 2, 2008, 11:00 a.m.
WHERE: Family Research Council
Media Center
801 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
RSVP: 800-225-4008 or online below
Lunch will be provided.
The lecture will be available via live webcast at www.frc.org
Robert Moffit has been a veteran of Washington policymaking for more than 25 years, and is Director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Health Policy Studies. A former senior official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Personnel Management during the Reagan administration, Moffit specializes in Medicare reform, health insurance, and other health policy issues.
Religious liberties have real applications in medicine, e.g., the right to choose a pro-life physician or the right not to be pushed into shortening the life of a loved one. To have these and myriad other options available to them individuals and families need freedom of choice in health care. There is grave danger to the liberties of all unless the religious communities of the country engage their political leaders on these issues.
Bob Moffit and his team at The Heritage Foundation are the key architects of individual and family liberties in health care financing and over two dozen states have sought their help in finding solutions that embody these liberties.
I was under the impression that religious liberty had been doing just fine in this country for more than 200 years without the government telling free citizens how to take care of their health.
Regards,
Agreed. If the government provides our health care, they are going to inevitably eventually have control over what health care we get, and who gets it, whether it coincides with our religious convictions or not. Governement provided/controlled health care is a slippery slope in many ways.
I believe you misread the article. Moffitt believes in freedom of choice in health care. I believe that means free market, not governmental solutions.
Dear DLfromthedesert,
I certainly confess to not understanding the article (which is really only a "come-on").
But anyone who speaks of reforming the health care system in order to protect our religious freedoms ought more properly to refer to dismantling government-mandated health care.
Regards,
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