Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

Among these are how many and how frequently people have lapses in their health insurance; the characteristics of people with disabilities; the presence of health care provisions in child support agreements; and whether more people enter or exit poverty during a given year.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

This president didn't sound particularly concerned about the 46 million people without health insurance.

But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.