CFI Positions on Health Care Reform
October 9, 2009
(1) Although CFI does not endorse any particular plan for health care reform, CFI
recognizes the importance of guaranteeing
a decent minimum of
health
care
for all. CFI endorses universal
coverage not only on the moral grounds of helping those in
need
,
but also because providing access to preventive
care
has
been shown to lower the social cost of medical treatment.
(2) CFI calls for the protection of reproductive rights and sex education, and
denounces attempts to use the
health
care
reform bills to undermine them.
(3) CFI objects to religious conscience exemptions from taxation. This
presents a serious violation of church-state separation.
(4) CFI objects to taxpayer funding for non-evidence based treatments,
including both non-evidence based complimentary and alternative medicine (e.g.,
therapeutic touch) and so-called spiritual
care, an issue that
implicates both science and the separation of church-state.
