HuffPo Feature on Rabbis for Health Insurance Reform

Aaron Keyak — August 12, 2009 – 9:49 am | Domestic Policy | Health Care | Obama Comments (1) Add a comment

The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein wrote a feature piece on NJDC’s launch of RabbisforHealthCare.org. If you haven’t asked your Rabbi (or Rabbis), click here to invite them to sign on with our email form.

Here’s the beginning of Stein’s post:

The debate over comprehensive health care reform has been so heated this summer it was bound to get biblical.

On Tuesday, the National Democratic Jewish Council announced a new stage in its efforts to support the president’s health care reform agenda. The group, a staunch ally of the White House, launched a “Rabbis for Health Insurance Reform” webpage, urging Congress to get legislation passed for “Democrats, Republicans, Christians, Muslims, and Jews.”

The site casts the need for reform as a fiscal and moral imperative and wraps it in the cloak of Judaism’s traditions.

“Our tradition teaches us to pursue justice,” the site reads. “Yet it is not a just society when families are forced to choose between paying their mortgages or paying for prescription drugs. It is not a just society when small businesses must choose between being profitable or providing coverage to their employees. It is not a just society when people are denied health insurance because they have a pre-existing condition for which they need medical care. Equal access to safe and affordable health care is an essential social justice issue of our time.”

Click here to read the rest and here to go to RabbisforHealthCare.org.

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