National Health Care and Christ . . .?

Question

Would Christ support a government that provided assistance to the sick? Having read the New Testament, generally speaking Christ could be found amongst the poor or otherwise disenfranchised . . . Would a vote for national health care be a vote for a more Christ-like representation of American government and a vote against NHC a vote for further separation of Church and State?

Answer 1

I live in the UK and am proud to live in a country that cares for the health of its population.
Healthcare in the USA actually costs more than that in the UK, and while it is great (as it is anywhere) for those who can pay to go private, overall, it is not as good as healthcare in most developed countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care#Economics Statistically, you are going to live longer, and have a baby that is less likely to die soon after birth in almost every other western country. How is that right for the richest and most powerful country in the world?

Answer 2

I remember that the good Samaritan was a private businessmen with some spare time after lunch.
I don't want a government that thinks itself equal to Christ.
Was not the Devil's sin vanity?

Answer 3

No. Christ told us to offer CHARITY to others. When the government forces money out of you, you are NOT giving charity.

There is no Constitutional requirement for the "separation of church and state" either. I wish people would stop believing the bogus use by a SC judge from about 50 years ago. What Jefferson was doing with the phrase was reassuring a minister that the government would keep its nose out of the church's business. http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html

THIS is THE Letter in full:
To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.

Gentlemen

The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.

Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.

Note that came from a GOVERNMENT web site. It's the REAL document.

People were NOT dying in the streets before managed care moved in on the LIE that physicians were overcharging and they'd save us all money.

The health care profession has been hijacked by attorneys and bureaucrats of all sorts, driving up costs, and limiting access. Rationing is the NORM for ALL of these sorts of programs, be it our underfunded mess of IHS for Indians, Medicare that has seen premiums MORE THAN DOUBLE in a decade ($43.80 in 1998, $96.40 in 2008) and many HMO programs that offered drug benefits DECREASED them to conform to the idiotic "donut hole" coverage. The list goes on.

Canada will go broke soon if they persist with their program and are already DELISTING services they provide AND there are ILLEGAL private fee-for-service clinics all over Canada. The head of the Canadian Medical Association was even the head of one of those. (“Canada’s health system dream turns to nightmare,” 11 June 2004, Dr. Glueck & ("Individual Freedom vs. Government Control,” 1 August 2007, nationalreview.com).

Better idea (and meant to transition totally to private sector in about 30 years--can't just dump people in their 70s off of a medical plan, etc.):
http://www.booklocker.com/books/3068.html
Read the PDF.

Answer 4

charity is given from the heart with generosity and virtue. It is not extracted from you under the threat of imprisonment. This is not charity, it is theft.
Let's put it another way. You pass a homeless person on the street. If you were to give him money or food, that would be up to you, and it would be an honorable and Christian thing to do. But grabbing a weapon and threatening everyone who passes by to make them give to the homeless man is not. Number one, what you are doing is armed robbery, and more imoortantly, these people aren't giving in a Christian way, they are having their property taken from them under a threat of something bad happening to them.

Answer 5

no, christ simply said render unto ceasar what is ceasars. again, simply put...robbing somone of the fruits of their labors so that someone better of then they are can freeload has nothing christian about it. its a handout...deal with it liberal. eliminate the pork and things will change.