“What’s the CBO score?” is one way to judge between competing health reform efforts, but hardly the best way. How about asking the questions raised by Faithful Reform in Health Care: how many lives will be saved, and how many jobs preserved?

Religious leaders of all stripes are pushing for health care reform, rooted in the belief that health care is a basic right for all people, not a commodity. Not that you’d know this by following the TradMed . . .

Want to hear about insurance companies rationing health care? Just ask your local clergyperson. Most of us hear about the rationing almost every day as we visit with our members, and can paint a clearer picture of the need for reform than any lobbyist, without all the spin.

A coalition of religious groups is taking out radio ads in five states in favor health care reform over the Fourth of July recess: Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Nebraska, and North Carolina. That’s an interesting set of states: Four wavering democratic senators and Focus on the Family come to mind.