Healthcare is a problem, and not apparently a merely sociopolitical problem. If one were to believe the media pundits, it is also very much a religious question. Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times berates Paul Ryan for attempting to repeal the Affordable Care Act on the grounds that Speaker Ryan's opposition to ObamaCare is a denial of the Gospel and therefore a violation of the Catholic faith that Speaker Ryan professes. Jesus, apparently, was a socialist and would have voted Democrat. Not so, says James Freeman in the Wall Street Journal, Speaker Ryan was right to push forward with the repeal of the Act and can do so, as a Catholic in good conscience, because, well, Jesus was not a socialist.
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