How can Christian Republicans justify providing health care as a PRIVILEGE and not a RIGHT?

What you don't understand, its not the function of our government to provide welfare, health care and financial support to its citizens.

As you goose-step towards full blown socialism, you do not recognize that government is corrupt, the more power it has the more corrupt it will be and you will lose your freedoms and liberty if you alllow government to become a monster. The bureaucrats who feed off of others will strip liberties away in order to maintain their power and your foolish loyalty.

If you really care about the cost of health care, support tort reform, placing caps on lawsuits and out of control jury awards. Oh, trial lawyers have paid off every single democrat, including Obama, to prevent tort reform, so that litigation paralyzes our health care industry......... so you can claim we need government to take over health care and socialize medicine.

The Bible does not advocate socialism and worshipping govt. Why don't all the Hollywood liberals, entertainment and liberal journalists pay for poor people's health care instead of govt? Why not demand Timothy Sarandon, Michael Moore and Sean Penn pay off all poor people's health care bills? Absurd? so is thinking govt provides all your needs.

You misunderstand the Obama plan. It is to abolish prosperity. It was carefully crafted by Robert Mugabe and his brains trust at the Central Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and is founded on the 7 basic precepts of the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot. Social justice will be achieved when all Americans (government officials exempted) live no better than Kenyans or Zimbabweans. Health care under the Obama health plan will be a hospital devoid of drugs with the power cutting in and out because of energy rationing and an AIDS rate of 25%. Just like Zimbabwe.

*with a little fear of being intrepreted here as a "christian republican," i answer*

i think that's a bit of an unfair question. I know MANY christian republicans who want their fellow man to be covered with health insurance, but the debate goes a bit deeper than just principle....i'll keep it on the superficial level you presented the question at, though.

following your logic, according to the bible, people can repent and be forigiven all their sins....so, would you consider christians support of a criminal justice system inconsistent? would it make more sense, following your rationale, for a christian to support the use of confessionals instead of courts.

it's a hyperbolic example used only to support my point: they may disagree with your obvious choice on health care based on their ideas of pragmatism; not just their religious ideals.

Carl,

Its not about justifying health care for the privilege but balancing what works best for everyone. This is a tough call really because yes, we are supposed to help those who need help, but God also says to take care of what needs to be taken care of in order to help those who need help. The answers to this question from those who seem to dislike Christians period are mixing up the concept of what is needed to help those who can then turn around and help others. So many trauma centers have been closed down because we have not the money to keep them open while health care professionals treat anyone regardless of insurance. Then you have things like the investigation into Acorn, which received over 52 million dollars in grant money and distributing it illegally. Do you know how many people we could have helped?

That does not mean you have a right , to make me take care of you.

It means we should help each other out of love not as a right.

Same as giveing to the poor. you should give out of your own money to the poor , not take it from someone else and give it away.

Study the word of God and don't add any thing to it.

"are you aware that by definition a right is something that can be given and/or taken away by a governing body?"

Dead wrong. Rights are inalienable, privileges are government granted.

Some of the previous posters are correct. The Bible doesn't mention health care as either a privilege or a right, so your straw man premise fails.

Bull. Government health care is not affordable. Everyone will have expensive lousy health care. What is Christian about rationing health care and making it so expensive people will have to use it less rather than more? This bill is so bad, the Senate voted to only post a summary on line 3 days before the vote. It will fundamentally change our economy but we aren't supposed to know exactly how.

Hello, Carl,

naturally your question is justified!

All those who are here criticizing you really do not know and understand the teachings of Jesus!

However your complaint should not only be directed against Republicans but against almost all Christians.

Most (as you see here in the answers) are Christians only with their lips, but not with their heart and mind!

That is why nowadays the Spirit Of Jesus is mostly forgotten.

I don't agree with you about WWJD, but you have a good point nonetheless. Christian Republicans raise BILLIONS for the military industrial complex - through their churches and through government subsidies. This is military socialism on a GRAND scale but socialism to save peoples lives rather than bomb them is BAAAAD.

Jesus lived in a different world than we do but I'm pretty sure he'd rather people pay something and have control of their health care, than pay nothing and have little or no control. Liberty is actually a GOOD thing.

Why can a American call it a right.

We are over 200 years old and all the sudden it became a right?

How so smarty pants?

Because 0bama said.