TX Kevin
TX Kevin
Jul 25, 2017 · 2 min read

Good grief….. You cite the following….

Some lawmakers, for instance, have cited Scripture to implicitly suggest leaving tens of millions without access to health care is acceptable because the poor and sick deserve their fate.

“Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us,’” Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS), told Stat News in March. “There is a group of people that just don’t want health care and aren’t going to take care of themselves.”

Your context here boarders on ridiculous. Is it not illegal to be without health insurance at this time (subject to IRS penalties)? Do we still have people who do not have insurance? Clearly what the man said was Absolutely true and Jesus was correct in noting we will always have people in need. If we gave every person in the country 100,000 tomorrow in less than a year (or months) there would be poor people. This does not mean to say that they “deserve their fate” (that is YOU saying that) or that they do not deserve our charity. In fact Jesus specifically called upon the individual to be charitable toward the poor.

I certainly consider insurance, which is a method of minimizing risk of catastrophic expense, to be critical. This does not make it a “right” as auto insurance is also critical yet not a right. Note that insurance and healthcare are different but related things. Healthcare is what treats your condition. Insurance is what pays for the healthcare you are treated with. There are many ways to receive healthcare without insurance. Some people choose to use charitable organizations or providers for treatment and accept the personal risk that goes along with this. Others have enough resources where insurance is unnecessary. No one will disagree that everyone needs access to healthcare. Whether everyone needs insurance for healthcare paid for by someone else is a completely different question.

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