The Problem with Health Care

Paul's comment asked for discussion on the medical industry today, and I could probably go on for days about all of the problems. Of course, if I was to remember that we just past the Thanksgiving holiday, I might be inspired to talk about all of the truly wonderful things about American medicine.

There are obviously many problems with the current system of insurance for most. And it is not at all obvious to me what the solution should be. But it seems pretty easy to see what the root of our problem is.

The body of Christ is not doing it's job. We have a Biblical mandate to care for the sick. This means we should be sacrificing our time and money and energy to care for those with health care needs who cannot meet them themselves. If we had been doing this all along, there surely would not have been a health care crisis. The insurance system as we know it would never have developed, because we would not have had to worry what would happen if we got sick.

Although we are now stuck with a broken system, it seems obvious to me that we need start doing our part. Have money? Give a gift to a local free health care clinic. Have time? Volunteer at such a clinic. Have neither? Pray hard about it. If we really have a heart to give, it often seems that God enables us to do so.