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Health care CPR: Religious groups push for reform

As President Barack Obama delivered his first State of the Union address on Jan. 27, 2010, religious groups that support health care reform were pressing the White House and Congress to continue to try to pass a comprehensive overhaul. Prospects for that dimmed considerably with the Republican victory in Massachusetts’ Senate election Jan. 19.

Children’s health insurance: a moral obligation?

UPDATED FEB. 5, 2008 – New Census figures show that nearly 9 million children – more than 1 in 10 — in the United States don’t have health insurance. A showdown is brewing over the 10-year-old federal program that offers health coverage to low-income children, and religious leaders of all faiths are among those pushing [...]