Patheos (& Other) Peeps: LaVonne Neff on Healthcare Rationing

Last updated on: September 21, 2012 at 4:00 am by Ellen Painter Dollar

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: LaVonne Neff on Healthcare Rationing 2012-09-20T14:00:05-04:00 Ellen Painter Dollar

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

On Fridays, I publicize work by other writers. I focus often but not exclusively on writers affiliated with Patheos, the religion and spirituality web portal that hosts my blog. Please share the love by reading these writers’ blog posts and books, sharing them via Facebook, Twitter, etc., and/or participating in online conversations with them.

Although we have yet to meet in person, I consider LaVonne Neff to be one of my mentors, in both writing and trying to figure out what our Christian faith has to do with our daily lives as mothers and daughters, writers and citizens. Also, as LaVonne pointed out last week, as writers, she and I both “go between neuralgic [that is, painful] ethical topics and fuzzy little dogs!” She took this as evidence that “We are clearly very well-balanced women.” If she says so….

LaVonne blogs at Lively Dust and with her husband, David Neff, at the Neff Review. One of LaVonne’s strengths is her ability to write about current policy debates from a faith angle, and to do so convincingly without being strident. In response to a Facebook conversation that I was part of concerning the rationing of healthcare, she wrote a useful post suggesting some broad ways that a national healthcare system could use rationing to keep costs down while ensuring that people have access to necessary medical care. I admitted to her that the idea of rationing frightens me, because I don’t completely trust all doctors to make rational decisions about what is and is not necessary for me to live a full and active life with my bone disorder. But, as LaVonne points out in her post, American healthcare is already rationed, just not for the right reasons.

Here is LaVonne’s healthcare post, and while you’re visiting, I suggest you peruse some of her other posts on topics including abortion, money, and food.

Previous Post

September 20, 2012

What Shane Claiborne (& Mother Teresa!) Got Wrong: On Being the Body of Christ with Imperfect Bodies

Next Post

September 24, 2012 Why Allowing Parents to Choose Their Baby's Gender is Wrong

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category disability ethics parenthood Uncategorized

Select a Month September 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

Who said, "If I perish, I perish"?

Select your answer to see how you score.

Ruth Deborah Hannah Esther