June 09, 2016

Health Care

Many folks today are in dire financial straits due to rising health care costs and insurance premiums. While we might like to point an accusatory finger at Obamacare, the reality is that throughout time healthcare expenditures often shipwreck people financially. The woman who was subject to bleeding for 12 years was caught in such a dilemma. By the time she learned of the healing power of Jesus and got close enough to touch his cloak, her situation went beyond her physical ailment, “She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse” (Mark 5:26 NIV). In the narrative she had faith to be healed and Jesus then sent her on her way, “Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” We don’t know the end of the woman’s story. I wonder if she rejoiced in her healing, or did she lament to others about the lousy doctors and her loss of financial stability.

2 comments:

Steve Corey said...

Gail;

-----Health care is a good topic for bantering over what is or is not in one’s own control. The discussion is challenging because many aspects of the situation are in our own control, many are not, and some of those should be. And although pointing the accusatory finger does not help any matter, pointing the analytical finger should help. But it never helps either, because good analysis is always successfully relabeled to be bad accusation when your nemesis gets crafty. And that is why health care has financially become hellth care; our nemesis is more than sufficiently crafty. We took our eyes off the ball. We’ve struck out in the bottom of the ninth. Satan is up to bat now. Thank God Jesus is pitching. This ballgame will get much messier over the next inning, but it will end very well.

Love you all,
Steve Corey

Steve Corey said...

Gail;

-----Health care is a good topic for bantering over what is or is not in one’s own control. The discussion is challenging because many aspects of the situation are in our own control, many are not, and some of those should be. And although pointing the accusatory finger does not help any matters, pointing the analytical finger should help. But it never helps either, because good analysis is always successfully relabeled to be bad accusation when your nemesis gets crafty. And that is why health care has become hellth care; our nemesis is more than sufficiently crafty.
-----ObamaCare is not about health care. It is about unraveling the fiber and breaking the will of the American people. Government provided hellth care has been in the pipe-dreams of central-control leftists since Teddy Roosevelt’s “reign”. In 2007, during a big-dollar-per-plate fund raiser for his campaign, Obama assured his room-full of wealthy donors that the single-payer hellth care system was his ultimate goal, but they would first have to endure a private system with mandated participation. Upon its failure, the country would be left with one last option: single-payer, that is government provided hellth care.
-----Why do I call it hellth care? Because it is not about optimizing health care at minimum cost. Do you remember the scandal inside IRS’ non-profit division? That scandal registered monumental effects. By their sandbagging of conservative organizations conservative messages were pruned from the public forum. Such sandbagging was possible by staffing the bureaucracy with political leftists and demonstrating that their leftist behaviors were more than tolerable by merely overlooking misdeeds. The leftist's staff followed in good line, and hundreds of conservative organizations were hog tied onto the political sidelines. We’ve seen seven years of similar leftist activities throuhout our government, from Obama’s refusal to enforce the Domestic Marriage Act, to his refusal to enforce immigration laws, to his refusal to prosecute the Philadelphia thugs intimidating with billy-clubs conservative voters at a Philadelphia pole. And we expect leftist provided hellth care to be pure as the wind driven snow? Lefty government has already attempted to require doctors to gather information on the household firearms. When a leftist government gains complete control of the hellth care system, you can bet politically oriented information will be required for your access to their hellth care system, and the more the information slants left, the better your hellth care will be. That’s simply how leftists work.
-----We are still asleep on what is transpiring on our political landscape. We yet think it is just a Democrat/Republican thing: “I like blue, you like red. Just don’t ask me what anything means beyond Bush stinks and Hillary rules.” We took our eyes off the ball and struck out in the top of the ninth. Satan is up to bat now. Thank God Jesus is pitching. This ballgame will get much messier over the rest of this inning, but it will end very, very well. Can you sing "Imagine no evil..."?

Love you all,
Steve Corey