'Values voters' see little value in medical reform: "It's not the government's job"
Health-care reform may be Priority No. 1 in Congress and at the White House, but for the 1,825 religious conservatives who gathered in Washington for the annual Values Voter Summit in September, the subject was barely on their radar screen.
“To me, there are so many more important issues than health care right now,” said John Leaman, a retired yacht builder from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Added his wife, Linda, a waitress: “I don’t think it’s as urgent as Obama’s making it out to be.” The real problem, she said, is illegal immigrants “cluttering up our emergency rooms.”