Questions - Biblical Healthcare
28. If elected, what will you do about the healthcare system, and how?
In the world's richest country and one founded on
Biblical principles, why do 50 million people have no healthcare coverage and senior
citizens are forced to choose between food and healthcare or cross into Canada
for affordable healthcare?
It is because we have not built our healthcare system on our founding
Biblical principles. Instead, we entrusted our healthcare system to
unbridled capitalism,
whose goal is not to care for the sick but to profit, and that is exactly
what the healthcare industry has done. By bypassing the sick, charging high
premiums to the healthy and doing its best not to pay, the healthcare
industry earned record profits. In the 5 years between 2002 and 2007, Humana,
Aetna and Cigna made enough money to raise their share prices by 800%, 600% and
300%, respectively, before crashing with the rest of the Wall Street in 2008.
What would a Bible-based health care system require?
Jesus told us to provide care to even
"the least" among the "sick"
and warned about the consequences of not caring for those in need,
including the sick:
"Then the King will say to those on His right hand,
‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food;
I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me
in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was
in prison and you came to Me.’ “Then the righteous will answer Him,
saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and
give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked
and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to
You?’ And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to
you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren,
you did it to Me.’ “Then He will also say to those on the left hand,
‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the
devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was
thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take
Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did
not visit Me.’ “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did
we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in
prison, and did not minister to You?’ Then He will answer them, saying,
‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the
least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ And these will go away into
everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
(Matthew 25:34-46)
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