What JFK said about segregation in '63: "This is a moral issue." So today...

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the President needs to address this health care fiasco as a moral issue as well.

The other night Bill Moyers referred to this speech by JFK:

This is not a sectional issue. Difficulties over ___ exist in every city, in every State of the Union, producing in many cities a rising tide of discontent that threatens the public safety. Nor is this a partisan issue. In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. This is not even a legal or legislative issue alone. It is better to settle these matters in the courts than on the streets, and new laws are needed at every level, but law alone cannot make men see right.
We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution.
The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded _____, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.

Just change the blanks from racial justice/equal treatment/etc. with 'health care'.

And Moyers said this current debate is a moral issue and needs to be addressed as so.