Perhaps the best way for the government to help those in need of medical care is to give tax breaks for hospitals and doctors that care for those unable to pay for their own care. A tax deduction equal with the bill that would have been charged. A win/win solution.
True the Federal Government would have to learn to back off and let those that know what they're doing do what they do best. It might all fall apart there.

Leadership is critical in a free society.  Of all the gifts, leadership is the one that coordinates all the others.  Also, of all the gifts it is probably the most rare and definitely the most difficult to carry out.

  Jesus said that a leader should serve. Our culture has virtually twisted the idea of serving into a negative term. It's a beautiful thing when people serve together.

 I agree with LoBornlite and Mowingmaniac. Leadership as defined by Jesus is critical, rare and difficult. It requires the death of our pride and self ambitions. It is not good people skills nor purpose driven goals. It is serving the needs of others. In whatever capacity we are led by the Lord to do so. Usually there will be neither glamour nor fame.

If we emphasize Leadership, then do so by the example Jesus gave us. He lowered Himself and suffered for others.
Leadership is not reserved for the few, but is for all. We should all serve. There are no first class and second class Christians. There should not exist an elite group dominating others in the church.
There is a Head. His name is Jesus. We are to be led by His Spirit.
The Church has handicapped itself by functioning as an organization patterned after those of the world. The majority of the body is left to atrophy while a few wear themselves out keeping programs and services going as a life support system. This keeps the average believer spiritually stuck; dependent upon others for a relationship with God.

This is the same pattern the Hebrews had when they told Moses, you go up the mountain and meet with God. We'll stay right here. You just let us know what He says. In the same way, many Christians have no personal relationship with God. How can we judge this? Think of people around you: neighbors, co workers, friends. Do you know them or just know about them? Do they know you? To what degree of intimacy? In the same way, God wants to be in your life; interacting and developing intimacy and personal knowledge. This is something private that the fruit of this is shared with a community of believers for the benefit of all.
    Looking at your life, how has God helped others through you?

This is the text of President John Adams' March 23, 1798 national Fasting and Prayer proclamation; as printed in the The Phenix/Windham Herald, April 12, 1798.

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By the President of the United States of America

A PROCLAMATION

AS the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and blessing of Almighty God; and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him,

but a duty whose natural influence is favorable to the promotion of that morality and piety, without which social happiness cannot exist, nor the blessings of a free government be enjoyed; and as this duty, at all times incumbent, is so especially in seasons of difficulty and of danger, when existing or threatening calamities, the just judgments of God against prevalent iniquity are a loud call to repentance and reformation; and as the United States of America are at present placed in a hazardous and afflictive situation, by the unfriendly disposition, conduct and demands of a foreign power, evinced by repeated refusals to receive our messengers of reconciliation and peace, by depredations on our commerce, and the infliction of injuries on very many of our fellow citizens, while engaged in their lawful business on the seas: —Under these considerations it has appeared to me that the duty of imploring the mercy and benediction of Heaven on our country, demands at this time a special attention from its inhabitants.

I HAVE therefore thought it fit to recommend, that Wednesday, the 9th day of May next be observed throughout the United States, as a day of Solemn Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer; That the citizens of these states, abstaining on that day from their customary worldly occupations, offer their devout addresses to the Father of Mercies, agreeably to those forms or methods which they have severally adopted as the most suitable and becoming: That all religious congregations do, with the deepest humility, acknowledge before GOD the manifold sins and transgressions with which we are justly chargeable as individuals and as a nation; beseeching him, at the same time, of his infinite Grace, through the Redeemer of the world, freely to remit all our offences, and to incline us, by his holy spirit, to that sincere repentance and reformation which may afford us reason to hope for his inestimable favor and heavenly benediction; That it be made the subject of particular and earnest supplication, that our country may be protected from all the dangers which threaten it; that our civil and religious privileges may be preserved inviolate, and perpetuated to the latest generations; that our public councils and magistrates may be especially enlightened and directed at this critical period; that the American people may be united in those bonds of amity and mutual confidence, and inspired with that vigor and fortitude by which they have in times past been so highly distinguished, and by which they have obtained such invaluable advantages: That the health of the inhabitants of our land may be preserved, and their agriculture, commerce, fisheries, arts and manufactures be blessed and prospered: That the principles of genuine piety and sound morality may influence the minds and govern the lives of every description of our citizens; and that the blessings of peace, freedom, and pure religion, may be speedily extended to all the nations of the earth.

And finally I recommend, that on the said day; the duties of humiliation and prayer be accompanied by fervent Thanksgiving to the bestower of every good gift, not only for having hitherto protected and preserved the people of these United States in the independent enjoyment of their religious and civil freedom, but also for having prospered them in a wonderful progress of population, and for conferring on them many and great favours conducive to the happiness and prosperity of a nation.

Given under my hand and seal of the United States of America, at Philadelphia, this twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the said States the twenty-second.

JOHN ADAMS

By the President,
TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary of State