GN Commentary: - Health Care Reform

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So what's all the fuss about? Aren't there millions without health care? Shouldn't we all have it?


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Town hall meetings! Over one thousand pages of the House Health Care bill! Confusion over its contents! The rush to get this legislation passed. Insurance companies are worried. What is the projected cost of the reform? Will the quality of health care suffer? All of these issues have been flooding the news as Americans seek to understand the overhaul in the healthcare system and what it will do to them.
So what's all the fuss about? Aren't there millions without health care? Shouldn't we all have it? Exactly how many don't have healthcare who actually desire it. Estimates range from two or three million to forty-seven million if you include illegal aliens and those who do not desire health care because they are young and vigorous and don't feel they need it. The question is should all Americans pay for illegal aliens to have healthcare? But, shouldn't we care for those who need healthcare and can't afford it? I believe so. The biblical principle was to set aside funds to care for those who needed help.
Here are some of the issues from the health bill that cause concern: Senior citizens are troubled they may be denied the care they need. Pro-life supporters don't like the wording regarding funding for abortion. Small business owners don't like the prospects of being taxed for lack of the public health plan. Insurance companies worry about being forced out of business. Will the government be involved in individuals' private accounts? Will the government decide on your treatments and benefits? Should doctors' salaries being monitored?
What about the cost of such a program as currently being proposed in the House of Representatives? Figures range from six billion to over one trillion dollars. Who will pay for this? Will this add to the already sky-high deficit? President Obama has said he will not sign a bill for healthcare reform that adds to the deficit. But how will this all-encompassing program be paid for? Higher taxes, maybe?
While healthcare is very important, passing on its debt to our children and grandchildren is also extremely important. Many do not want their families' future saddled with more debt.
As the debate continues in town hall meetings and in the media, one thing is clear; there is much opposition to the current plan. Health Care is important, but there has to be a system that will not penalize over sixty per cent of Americans who are currently happy with their present plans.
Will Congress rush this bill through to support the President's zealous agenda or will they carefully read the thousand pages of the bill and decide that this is too ambitious for the American people to handle at this time?
Soon, we will know the answer when our lawmakers resume their work in September!
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For GN Magazine I'm Gary Antion.

GN Commentary: Healthcare and Horses

GN Commentary: - Healthcare and Horses
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Find your Bible and check out all the details of God's health care program and Jesus Christ's plan to make it universally available to all mankind.


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Healthcare and horses. All the private and government healthcare programs in all the nations—especially right now in America—could learn a great healthcare lesson from a Viking king who refused to eat his horse!
The United States is in the midst of a huge debate about private vs. public healthcare.
No doubt many countries marvel at the how late America is stepping into the socialistic pond of public healthcare.
Many US leaders claim that American private healthcare is the best in the world precisely because it is private enterprise based. Others claim that millions don't get healthcare unless the government provides it. And yet others counter-claim that people won't get good healthcare if the government does provide it.
But all those healthcare theories and systems miss the most important point—none of them can match God's healthcare system.
Almost 3500 years ago Moses was inspired to write down the divine program! 3500 years should have been plenty of time for people to read and copy out the details. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Knowledge of divine healthcare has long been around in the minds of some.
There was a Viking king of Norway, Haakon the Good, who came to power about 935 AD. He had been reared in England as a Christian and the foster son of the Saxon king.
Shortly after his ascension, his Viking followers held a pagan feast that featured a menu of horse-flesh. The history book says, "[Haakon] refused to partake of the horse-flesh, the eating of which was forbidden by the Christian religion as it had been taught to him…" (1.) Amazingly and correctly King Haakon had learned that God had not made horseflesh for human consumption!
In fact God's healthcare system features disease prevention through a prescribed diet. You might be surprised which meats are on God's "eat" and "don't eat" lists!
In fact God's healthcare system includes among its features, disease prevention through a proscribed diet, an active life, quarantine, cleanliness, sexual morality and the most vital and overlooked part epitomized by Jesus Himself—divine healing. That's one treatment that modern public or private healthcare systems can't provide!
So the next time you're tempted to eat your horse, think of the great Viking King Haakon and don't do it!
Instead, find your Bible and check out all the details of God's healthcare program and Jesus Christ's plan to make it universally available to all mankind.
For GN magazine, I'm Randy Stiver.

Reference:(1.) Northmen of Adventure, by Charles Marshall Smith, p. 156, Longmans Green & Co., 1932
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