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The Bible makes it clear a society’s responsibility to care for its poor. As the NAE statement points out, “God measures societies by how they treat the people at the bottom.” Access to affordable health care must become a higher priority in Washington.

Kerry makes the compelling case that all Americans deserve access to health insurance that’s available to members of Congress. The Bush administration’s addition of a prescription drug benefit to Medicare is a step forward. But beyond President Bush’s efforts to shield doctors from frivolous malpractice suits, his achievements and plans on the health-care front have been too slow and not ambitious enough.

Some 40 million Americans lack health insurance. Both parties must persist in finding a viable way to bridge this gap, while safeguarding the market forces that stimulate innovation and economy.

--from The Values-Driven Voter, Christianity Today’s “Where We Stand” September 2004 Volume 48, No. 9, p. 32

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