{"id":73865,"date":"2017-11-19T03:42:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T11:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/pope-to-lawmakers-protect-all-people-with-health-care-laws"},"modified":"2017-11-19T03:42:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T11:42:46","slug":"pope-to-lawmakers-protect-all-people-with-health-care-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/pope-to-lawmakers-protect-all-people-with-health-care-laws","title":{"rendered":"Pope to lawmakers: Protect all people with health care laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pope-to-lawmakers-protect-all-people-with-health-care-laws.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasingly, sophisticated and costly treatment are available to ever more limited and privileged segments of the population, and this raises questions about the sustainability of health care delivery and about what might be called a systemic tendency toward growing inequality in health care,\u201d the pope said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>VATICAN CITY \u2014 Pope Francis on Thursday urged lawmakers to ensure that health care laws protect the \u201ccommon good,\u201d decrying the fact that in many places only the privileged can afford sophisticated medical treatments.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came as U.S. lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have been debating how to overhaul the nation\u2019s health insurance laws.<\/p>\n<p>In a message to a medical association meeting at the Vatican, Francis expressed dismay at what he called a tendency toward growing inequality in health care. He said in wealthier countries, health care access risks being more dependent on people\u2019s money than on their need for treatment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/religion\/pope-upset-that-health-care-is-too-tied-to-peoples-finances\/2017\/11\/16\/812ce274-cae2-11e7-b506-8a10ed11ecf5_story.html?utm_term=.714cef754e0a\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/religion\/pope-upset-...4cef754e0a<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIncreasingly, sophisticated and costly treatment are available to ever more limited and privileged segments of the population, and this raises questions about the sustainability of health care delivery and about what might be called a systemic tendency toward growing inequality in health care,\u201d the pope said. VATICAN CITY \u2014 Pope Francis on Thursday urged lawmakers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}