Healthcare & Welfare
Whether care for the sick and poor is a duty, and how the founding documents' general-welfare and spending clauses bear on safety nets.
6 questions
- Is Healthcare a Right or a Responsibility?Religious traditions across the world converge on healthcare as a communal moral obligation — Jesus's healing ministry and the first Christian hospitals…
- What Religious Teachings Say About Social Safety NetsReligious traditions treat provision for the poor as obligation, not optional charity — Jewish gleaning laws and tzedakah , Christian early-church…
- Mental Health and AddictionReligious traditions across the world treat mental health and addiction as conditions deserving compassion and care, not moral failures deserving judgment …
- Cutting Medicaid by $863 Billion and SNAP by $295 BillionReligious traditions speak with rare unanimity about the obligation to feed the hungry and care for the sick — and judge communities by how they treat the…
- The 2025 Shutdown and ACA Healthcare SubsidiesReligious traditions hold that those with power are responsible for the harm caused when they use disruption as a tool of leverage.
- Replacing the CDC Vaccine Advisory CommitteeMost religious traditions support vaccination as consistent with the obligation to protect life and health, while affirming substantial parental authority…