by Steve Thorngate
For the first time in 15 years, Congress and the White House are having a go at significant health care reform. The new issue of the Century includes three pieces exploring the need for change, the process of the debate and the likely outcomes.
The issue's editorial discusses the controversy over the "public option"—the plan, supported by the president and the Democratic leadership, for a public insurer to compete with existing private ones to cover health care for the general public. Social ethicist and single-payer advocate Gary Dorrien supports the public option as a compromise but stresses that it will improve things only if its details have some teeth. Robert Francis, domestic policy director for the ELCA, explains how he and his counterparts in other churches balance the sometimes different demands of representing denominational policy and participating in the larger debate.
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