United Methodist Church Supports Health Care Reform
Who does not have health care? Disproportionately, it is the poor and the aged.
Our denomination does not equivocate on the remedy for this situation. Our General Conference says, “Resolved, that The United Methodist Church exert influence through all its structures and means to connectionally advocate and fervently lobby the federal government for the adoption and implementation of a totally nonprofit health insurance system, a single-payer system administered by the federal government.”
General Conference also emphasizes: “The prophet Ezekiel denounced the leaders of ancient Israel whose failure of responsible government included failure to provide health care: ‘You have not strengthened the weak, you have not healed the sick, you have not bound up the injured, you have not brought back the strayed, you have not sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them’ (Ezekiel 34:4). The United Methodist Church therefore affirms in our Social Principles health care as a basic human right and affirms the duty of government to assure health care for all.”
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