[SuziQ]

U.S. bishops for decades have advocated comprehensive health care coverage as a right for all Americans, with a special focus on meeting the basic medical needs of the poor, elderly and disabled.

They know, however, that the government would not be the best, nor the proper, deliverer of this need. It could assist those who are of limited means, or pay for the care, by the private sector, of the truly poor, but not be the entity that decides on who gets what care, and when.

[La Enchiladita]

There is a bishop who, towards the end of the article, expresses those very thoughts.