Support SCHIP. SIGN THE LETTER TODAY!

As a person of faith, I believe that we have a sacred obligation to care for our children, including providing health care for them. In the richest nation in the world it is a moral outrage that children live sicker and in too many cases die because they cannot get needed health services.

It will take all of us - individuals, families, communities, states and the federal government - working together and sharing responsibility for our children's health care needs.

Now that the President has vetoed the bill, I urge you to accept responsibility for the role the federal government must take, and to vote to override his veto and support expanding SCHIP.

Some say finding the funding is the difficulty. I think it's more about our moral choices over how we will or will not spend our country's abundant resources.

Because we have not chosen to guarantee health care for everyone, we have millions of children whose lives could be forever challenged with minimal preventative health care, untreated illnesses/injuries and excessive school absences due to illness.

We have the opportunity to raise a new generation of healthy and productive citizens, but we will miss that opportunity if we continue to deprive so many children of the health care they need.

Until we as a nation agree that everyone should have needed health care, it is imperative that we choose to get our children covered. It's very simply the right - and moral - thing to do.


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