How can Christian Republicans justify providing health care as a PRIVILEGE and not a RIGHT?
This goes against everything Jesus taught while he was on earth. It goes against everything in the Bible.
Matthew 7:12....Do unto others (would you have others ignore you, if you were sick and needy?)
The idea that a God of love (1 John 4:8) would not have love for his fellow man....to the point of denying them basic health care for greed, in the WEALTHIEST NATION IN THE WORLD, mind you.....well, that's not love, and any sensible person knows that.
I still don't see any scriptural justification...please, bring on some enlightenment people.
I also meant to mention that MANY of Jesus' miracle's were HEALING PEOPLE and he never charged ANYTHING.....he didn't go to the RICH to heal either - he went to the poor....the needy.
If we are to follow in his steps....shouldn't we seek to provide care for our fellow man.
John Galt is ethical hedonism and if you think the secular works of an atheist like Rand goes along with the Bible, then you are sadly misguided.
elocin - there is a matter of the distribution of finite resources. Medical Ethicist is an employable position for this very reason...acronyms like QALY, etc exist to work this out. The fact of the matter is that our system is the most expensive on the planet - over twice what they pay in the UK, and by ANY objective measure (lifespan, birth mortality, obesity rates).....IT IS MEDIOCRE AT BEST.
To argue against the reform offered, preferring the status quo, is an argument against reason itself.
To argue against a public option, which we know - unquestionably - will drastically cut the cost of care - is an argument against common sense for the sole purpose of GREED - corporate profit.
I recommend anyone sensible enough do some real research, and that does mean turning OFF Fox News.
It's not the function of our government to provide health care or support the general welfare?
Then what did the Constitution mean here, in the FIRST PARAGRAPH....the PREAMBLE:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the GENERAL WELFARE, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
wow, it says.....GENERAL WELFARE.....
I'd add that the document later EXPLICITLY supports the right to levy taxes and other means of acquiring the means to carry out these tasks.
Oh, and as Christians - we are Christians FIRST. For me that means my relationship with God comes even before the nation and its Constitution. The mission to help our fellow man should come BEFORE a goal of strictly following a 200 year old secular document.
FWIW.....'the LORD helps those who help themselves'.....is NOT in the Bible.
Look it up. And the real irony here is that the people who claim I know nothing about Christianity (me...someone who can read/write Koine) knew this.....and they most surely didn't.