True, it may not be fair, but I do think health insurance is a little different. We all pay into it so that we all can have help with medical coverage. Ezekial 16:48, 49 tell us it wasn't just for sexual sin Sodom was burned, it was also for their neglect of the poor and needy. I know nobody likes the reality of Medicaid or national health insurance and giving to others sacrificially, but it's what we're called to do.
I'm sorry I can't agree with your original logical flow there.Surely mandatory liability insurance is the mechanism governments used to ENSURE that the biblical "you damage, you pay" is upheld.
Evading insurance is a way for the poor to evade responsibility for causing damage to property greater than they have the means to restore (including the value of their future labour).
Even Christian families are oblivious to restitution, not offering to pay for damage to others' homes caused by their indisciplined children.
When this dear fellow who suffered so much came home after the war. Now he was told to save God for Sundays. He found a stale Church with people who didn't really love and care for one another. Before the war his view of Christians were those of high society who ate cucumber sandwiches. After finding Christ in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, he found a Christian to be one who is willing to lay his life down for another.
If all the Christians in North America were to love others as these POW's cared for each other through Christ's love? Would there be one soul alive who would be neglected in their time of need?
There are many waiting lists for operations and people do end up dying. Nurses do work long hours and have to maintain aging equipment. There are however a lot of groups that raise very large amounts of money every year to fund children's hospitals.
I don't have life insurance, I am too poor to be able to afford it. There are premiums I could afford, yet it doesn't matter now because I am too ill for them to accept me.
If I die, because I am poor and on disability, then the Canadian Government would pay for my cremation.
Reading everyone's comments, makes me realize just how much I have been taking everything for granted. How often when God blesses us with provisions and we think it is due us? I have just finished reading the book, "To End All Wars". It is written by a Scottish Highlander who was a POW in a Japanese labour camp in Thailand during WW2.
When he was ill, for awhile he lived in the morgue, because it was the cleanest and dryest place in the camp. He lost mobility in his legs and was dying. The Japanese would not feed the dying, it was saved for the workers. A Methodist and a Catholic ended up taking car of him and nursing him to health.
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I am a person with disabilities therefore I have health coverage. My doctors visits, or if I need to go to emergency, hospital stays, most medications, if I saw a psychiatrist, day therapy, or if I needed to see a specialist these are all covered under disability. I am also allowed 12 visits a year with service fees of 10 dollars, to see physiotherapists.
CBC crowns Baptist socialist 'the Greatest Canadian'
"In addition to serving five terms as premier of Saskatchewan, Douglas passed more than 100 bills, introduced universal Medicare, paid off a provincial debt of some $20 million (the highest in Canada at the time), removed sales tax from food and meals, pastored Calvary Baptist Church in Weyburn, married and had two daughters, and became the first leader of the federal NDP, a position he held for 10 years. He retired from Parliament in 1979 but remained a prominent public figure. He died from cancer in 1986."
http://www.canadianchristianity.com/cgi-bin/na.cgi?nationalupdates/041201cbc
Part of the problem is that patients rarely are directly accountable for medical costs. We have seen firsthand how hospitals add redundant charges to bills which insurance companies go ahead and blindly pay unless you point it out. This happens not necessarily due to theft, but because of poorly-executed information technology or other admin goofups. The incentives for cost reduction are missing.
We only noticed it because when my wife had in-patient surgery, our plan happened to require us to pay part of it.
My sis-in-law is a nurse practitioner who gave us the inside view of this. She also said a lot of malpractice lawsuits could be avoided if doctors & hospitals would learn how to apologize. And even the most competent surgeons make mistakes at times, yet doctors are stoically expected to work inhumanly long hours, even more than interstate truckers are legally allowed to.
Perhaps states should limit working hrs. for doctors; lives may get saved (on both sides).
The only reason health insurance even exists is because most Americans are too financially undisciplined to save money for rainy days and insurance companies know it. Medical Insurance is a horrible waste of money.
Here is an interesting article on the subject by a gentleman named Jonathan Lindvall:
http://www.boldchristianliving.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=25
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