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President Obama cast his efforts to overhaul America’s health care system in moral terms in a conference call with liberal religious organizations late Wednesday afternoon, saying "these struggles always boil down to a contest between hope and fear."
"Throughout our history, whenever We’ve sought to change this country for the better, whenever we’ve sought to promote justice, there have always been those who wanted to preserve the status quo," Mr. Obama said, specifically mentioning the efforts of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to enact Social Security and John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson to start Medicare.
"I believe that nobody in America should be denied basic health care because he or she lacks health insurance, and no one in America should be pushed to the edge of financial ruin because an insurance company denies them coverage or drops their coverage or charges fees they can’t afford for care that they desperately need," he also said.
The call was sponsored by 40 Days for Health Reform, an umbrella group whose Web site says is led by PICO National Network, Sojourners, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, Faith in Public Life and Faithful America.
Mr. Obama’s portion of the event, called 40 Minutes for Health Reform, was essentially a 10-minuteaddress, as he took no questions. Those on the call did discuss reform before the president joined.
The talk, which was also broadcast online, is just one part of the president’s push on health care over the next day or so. On Thursday, Mr. Obama plans to sit down with the conservative radio host Michael Smerconish at the White House and also hold a conference call with supporters.
During Wednesday’s call with religious groups, the president also pushed back against some of his critics, saying "there are some folks out there who are frankly bearing false witness." And he called for people of faith to get behind his reform efforts.
"We are closer to achieving that reform than we have ever been," Mr. Obama said. "And that’s why we’re seeing some of the divisive and deceptive attacks. "
Mr. Obama spoke on several areas where he said there had been "misinformation in this debate," including the claim the overhaul would create "death panels."
And the president disputed claims that a health care overhaul would give insurance to illegal immigrants or lead to government funding of abortion.
After the call, opponents of abortion issued a rebuttal. "President Obama stated that abortion funding would not be included in health care reform," David Bereft, the national director for 40 Days for Life, said in a statement. "Talk’s cheap--is the president willing to include language in any health care reform proposal or bill that would explicitly exclude funding of abortion coverage"
The president also called on people of faith to "spread the facts and speak the truth" about health care reform.
"I know we’ve got thousands of people on this call from many different denominations and faiths, but the one thing that you all share is a moral conviction," Mr. Obama said. "You know that this debate over health care goes to the heart of who we are as a people.\
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