Personal Health   comments_image Comments  Jesus Is Their Health
Care: Why Conservative Christians Oppose Real Reform  Christian
conservatives support health care co-operatives -- but only for
other Christians. Sounds like something Jesus would approve of.
Why do conservative Christians in the US favor  healthcare co-
operatives? Speakers at the Family Research Council's  values
voters summit this month unanimously opposed any government-run
options, which they believe may lead to "European socialism".
But they endorsed collectivism in another guise: health co-
operatives. This differentiation is the logical outcome of
crass, Christian right exclusivity.  Manchester, my adopted
home, is the birthplace of the  British co-operative movement –
a place, at the coalface of the industrial revolution, that
experienced extreme inner city poverty and depravation. A place
where working-class people, struggling with a multitude of 19th-
century problems in health and housing, collectively sought to
help each other in time