Religious groups play key role in Obamacare insurance sign-up

[cbayer]

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/03/20/religious-groups-play-key-role-obamacare-insurance-sign/

Adelle M. Banks | Mar 20, 2014 |


The National Council of Jewish Women Sacramento Section tables for health coverage. Photo courtesy of National Council of Jewish Women

WASHINGTON (RNS) On one Friday earlier this month, more than 11,000 Muslims in mosques across the country heard a sermon about the Affordable Care Act.

Hindu and National Baptist groups, meanwhile, are posting online announcements about the White House’s “Faith and Community ACA Days of Action” this weekend (March 21-23).

Jewish women’s groups have visited college campuses to get students who think they’re “invincible” to sign up for health insurance.

As the national March 31 deadline for health insurance enrollment looms and with President Obama’s encouragement, organizations across a range of faiths are working to sign up uninsured Americans for coverage under Obamacare.

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[trotsky]

1. Many secular groups have been doing the same thing.

And many religious groups have been fighting against "Obamacare."

It's not a religious issue and I wish you didn't feel a need to "keep score" like this, cbayer.

[hrmjustin]

4. Sorry but she is not keeping score.

Don't see that at all.

[trotsky]

7. You are free to have your own opinion.

And so am I.

[hrmjustin]

8. yes we are.

[rug]

15. Nothing worse than misplaced hectoring.

[hrmjustin]

16. indeed!

[Thinkingabout]

2. I just have a suspension this is not happening in a lot of churches whose mission

Should be about the lives of others, who pray for healing but don't buy into the Obama care if it means a means of getting well.

It is good to hear different groups talking to get all signed up for health care.

[cbayer]

3. I am sure that there are some that are not doing this, but the numbers reported here

are pretty impressive.

[SharonAnn]

5. I'm sure that here in East Tennessee, the right-wing conservative churches don't do this.

And they're most of the churches here. A couple of prominent pastors are official members of the local Tea Party group.

[cbayer]

6. That's too bad. I think that some of these communities really shoot themselves in the feet.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. So did the religious groups stop their opposition to birth control benefits?

They are no longer suing and spraying rhetoric about it?
Wow.

[cbayer]

10. You say "the religious groups" like it is some monolithic

organization that speaks with a single voice. But it's not.

Sure, there are still some groups opposing birth control benefits and SCOTUS is about to hear their cases.

But there are other groups, like the ones in this article, who are doing what they can to promote and ACA and make sure those in their communities are covered.

Should we not give them the credit they deserve because there are other groups that hold a different position?

[Bluenorthwest]

11. Your headline claims only religious groups favor ACA, and ignores the fact that the

major opposition to it has ALSO been from religious groups. No one here comes from Mars, we all know there is variety in religious groups.

[cbayer]

12. It's not my headline and it only states that there are some religious groups

that are working to support the ACA.

Some people in this group complain frequently that the religious left doesn't do enough to counter the religious right.

But when I post an article showing that there are groups doing good things, I get criticized for not pointing out that there are religious groups doing the wrong things?

Which, by the way, gets tons of press. You are right, no one here comes from Mars. We all know that there are religious groups fighting against the ACA.

I swear, sometimes you just can't win around here.

[Goblinmonger]

13. You can't hide behind "it's not my headline" and then criticize reaction to said headline.

Your headline says "religious groups." The response was "did religious groups stop their opposition." Seems like a legitimate response. Sorry everyone wasn't gushing over these groups.

And these aren't groups countering the religious right. They are just helping and encouraging people to signup for ACA. Which is cool and all, but it doesn't go anywhere near telling the right they are wrong.

[trotsky]

14. Good job pointing out the distinction. n/t

[rug]

19. The only distinction is between what was added and to what is actually there.

Do you see a word there that doesn't exist?

[rug]

18. She's not. Nor is it the article's. Your cohort added "only".

[rug]

17. The headline doesn't have the word "only" in it.