Summer 2015 Issue of The Family in America Offers Fresh New Perspective on Health Care
Contact: Nicole King, 815-964-5819, nicole@profam.org; World Congress of Families, 815-964-5819, media@worldcongress.org
ROCKFORD, Ill., Sept. 18, 2015 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Howard Center for Family, Religion, & Society and World Congress of Families is excited to announce the publication of the summer 2015 issue of The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy. This issue, entitled "Beyond Obamacare: Key Questions Ignored by the Health-Care Debate," proposes fresh, original solutions to America’s glaring health-care crisis.
Featured in this issue:
Dr. Ryan MacPherson, chair of the history department at Bethany Lutheran College and author of Rediscovering the American Republic, investigates the ways in which the Affordable Care Act de-incentivizes marriage and family. Dr. MacPherson points to new alternatives to traditional health care, such as family-friendly "health-care sharing ministries" that charge their members far less, and accomplish much more, than large insurance companies.
Philip C. Longman, Policy Director and Managing Editor at New America's Open Markets Program, paints the picture of what traditional health-care costs mean for the average American family—for the typical family of four, these costs are "roughly equivalent to buying, and then junking, a brand new Honda Accord LX Every Year." Longman exposes the shocking political and corporate cronyism that keeps costs high and families poor.
Bryce J. Christensen, Professor of English at Southern Utah University, surveys the most cutting-edge research of the past 20 years demonstrating that health and family formation are inextricably linked. Divorce, cohabitation, even a lack of siblings—all have crucial import for the mental and physical wellbeing of children. Christensen recommends that insurance companies take such considerations into account when pricing their policies, in the same way they take smoker status into account.
In addition, William Duncan of the Marriage Law Foundation reviews Jephthah's Daughters: Innocent Casualties in the War for Family "Equality," edited by Robert Oscar Lopez and Rivka Edelman. And Family in America Managing Editor Nicole M. King reviews Steven Brill's America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System.
As always, this issue of The Family in America closes with the ever-popular New Research section, highlighting the scholarship that proves—even when the academics themselves don't want to admit it—that the natural family is the fundamental unit in a healthy society.
The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy is published by The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society and the World Congress of Families. To schedule an interview with Ryan MacPherson, Philip Longman, or Bryce Christensen, contact Nicole King at (815) 964-5819 or nicole@profam.org.
For more research and analysis of the natural family as the only fundamental and sustainable unit of society, come to World Congress of Families IX in Salt Lake City, October 27-30, 2015. Visit www.wcf9.org to see the full program and register online.
