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Roman Catholic bishops have taken a consistent line on a health care overhaul: It's vital, but they cannot support proposals that go too far in covering abortion and not far enough in protecting health workers who don't want to provide that procedure.

Typically deluded AP assertion. Bishop Nickless has stated (correctly) that the social mandate does not prescribe or mandate in any way a "government supplied" healthcare scheme. He argues (correctly) that only a free-market approach can provide an adequate range of services to meet all needs; and that a government monopoly (even a defacto one) would actually work against fulfilling the mandate of providing for the medical needs of society.

[La Enchiladita]

He argues (correctly) that only a free-market approach can provide an adequate range of services to meet all needs;

Bumping that. It is so good to see a bishop say so.