WASHINGTON — Providing 9 million uninsured children access to quality health care should be a top priority for the country’s government officials, Southern Baptist ethics specialist Richard Land and a variety of other religious leaders said.
Speaking on behalf of an interfaith coalition, Land, the president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, called for federal government attention to the problem during a March 6 Washington news conference featuring the National Interfaith Advisory Board for Cover the Uninsured.
They called for action as Congress considers reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program after its first 10 years. But Land and the other leaders did not endorse a particular approach to addressing the issue.
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