Health Care Sharing Ministries: Blessing or Future Crisis?
One of the most significant issues facing Americans is healthcare. The overwhelming concern is the cost. The lack of control over price has turned into a blame game. Doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and politicians blame each other for the ever-increasing cost. With much of the public frustrated with the entire healthcare system, more and more people are turning to alternatives such as health care sharing ministries. However, are health care sharing ministries the answer to everyone’s healthcare? Will the flow of money into these organizations turn their good intentions into disappointment and frustration for those that buy into the programs?
The price of being human is mortality. Just like Adam whom God made from dust and returned to the earth, so is the future of all of us. And those that accept Jesus as their savior have a life beyond that. However, between birth and death comes life. An overwhelming number of Americans are very concerned about how to care for their health during their life. “Fifty-five percent of Americans worry a great deal about the availability and affordability of healthcare” (Jones, 2018).
In 2010 we saw Obamacare enacted by Congress and it did get more people insured. However, it did very little to slow the rise in healthcare cost, pharmaceutical cost and…
