Comments on: Christian healthcare solutions? Anyone?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:00:52 +0000

I am confused. Don’t we already have Medicaid that is designed specifically to care for the poor at taxpayers expense?

The argument really isn’t the poor aren’t getting access to care. They have the opportunity. I am not saying it is the same care that the Rich get–but then again, only the rich will get that under any other plan either.

Let us be honest here. People like to “pretend” they aren’t paying for healthcare, and that the government will provide. Thus, we want to “have” healthcare (and ideally raise the taxes on all those “rich people who are getting away without paying their fair share.”)

What is the Christian thing to do? Love your neighbor. Love your neighbor. LOVE your neighbor.

If we each took care of our neighbor, our own local hurt and suffering, the CHRIST would be the “change we can believe in” not Obama. Not any “Man.”

By: John

John — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:50:01 +0000

“Profit” is not a four-letter word. If the product of a for-profit hospital is its former patients, and they are all dying, I imagine future business would dry up. The corporations do have an interest in getting people well: referrals.

By: Drew Tatusko

Drew Tatusko — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:27:57 +0000

Unless Christian organizations can subsidize massive healthcare costs, I don’t think there can be a viable alternative. Parts of the system like hospice care, assisted living, etc. are supported by various Christian organizations, but even they are all beholden to the system. So it’s hard to come up with an alternative when the economics don’t seem to work.

The problem is that healthcare is a corporation whose goal is to make money, not get people well and prevent them from getting sick.

By: jacob

jacob — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:05:51 +0000

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Shalom

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By: John

John — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:26:16 +0000

Hi Chris

I enjoy discussing politics as much as the next guy, but it seems that at the end of the day Jesus was pretty apolitical (in the context of the Roman Empire, not necessarily Judaism). Perhaps the government got involved in ‘socialism’ in the first place because Christians were fumbling the ball on benevolence.