At the Reform Movement Biennial Convention in December 2007, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, urged Reform Jews to take action in their home communities to expand access to affordable health care, stating:

"We live in a country with a pitifully inadequate health insurance system that causes horrors every day so tragic that they could rip the heart out of a stone.... The time has long since passed when our leaders should have done what every other advanced country has somehow managed to do: provide all its citizens with essential health care....But we need not look only to Washington for answers."

Across the country, Jews are taking this message to heart, doing everything from running free health clinics to lobbying their state legislators. Check out this Reform Judaism Magazine article, "Action: Confronting the Health Care Crisis," written by former RAC Legislative Assistant Donald Cohen-Cutler, about what Reform Jews are doing on health care.