The Corinthian Plan III

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The March 3 issue contains numerous articles and vignettes that build the case for The Corinthian Plan and the proposal to provide health-care coverage for all our pastors. As stated in the articles, this plan is an outgrowth of a commitment made by Mennonite Church USA at the 2007 San José assembly. While this approach has a lot of positives, a great deal has happened in our country since July 2007. I suspect that within our congregations a much higher number of people now do not have health care as opposed to 2007. We simply cannot only focus on one aspect of this issue.

At the same time, the articles are long on emotions and short on details. How does this approach actually work to lower the overall cost of health care? What are the minimum levels of care that are going to be provided? Does this approach treat mental health diagnoses and addiction diagnosis on par with other diagnoses in the plan?

We have an opportunity to truly present a health-care reform model. I urge our leaders to think outside of the box and make sure we are putting together a plan that can be a model for universal coverage. We will only have one attempt at this.

Associated Issue: A fair balance - March 3, 2009

Associated Article: Blessed insurance

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