Comments on: Thinking Christianly about the Health Care Debate http://www.pastorrobertson.net/2010/02/thinking-christianly-about-the-health-care-debate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thinking-christianly-about-the-health-care-debate Pastor Robertson's Occasional Blog Experience Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:41:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Vickie Boyd http://www.pastorrobertson.net/2010/02/thinking-christianly-about-the-health-care-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Vickie Boyd Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:19:02 +0000 http://www.pastorrobertson.net/?p=121#comment-112 I could say a lot about this issue but I will limit it to this. As I file taxes this weekend, I am very confident I don't want the same system that oversees the tax code to be between me and my physician. I could say a lot about this issue but I will limit it to this. As I file taxes this weekend, I am very confident I don’t want the same system that oversees the tax code to be between me and my physician.

]]> By: George http://www.pastorrobertson.net/2010/02/thinking-christianly-about-the-health-care-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-82 George Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:17:44 +0000 http://www.pastorrobertson.net/?p=121#comment-82 Great points, Eric! Thank you. George Great points, Eric! Thank you.

George

]]> By: Eric Chou http://www.pastorrobertson.net/2010/02/thinking-christianly-about-the-health-care-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Eric Chou Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:14:49 +0000 http://www.pastorrobertson.net/?p=121#comment-81 Great summary, George. We can do so much to care for those around us. Individuals in the church (voluntarily) help and serve those less fortunate, like the good samaritan. I'm concerned, though, about the increasing collectivist tones of these policies which would be like the good samaritan forcing others to help. Also, we would definitely be swimming upstream if we focused on preventive health and disease treatment through nutrition and healthful lifestyles instead of disease management and symptom alleviation in our current pharmaceutical/profit driven system. The sad truth is that so many of us working in healthcare need sick people, not healthy people for our livelihoods. Mark 2:17 "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick." Great summary, George. We can do so much to care for those around us. Individuals in the church (voluntarily) help and serve those less fortunate, like the good samaritan. I’m concerned, though, about the increasing collectivist tones of these policies which would be like the good samaritan forcing others to help. Also, we would definitely be swimming upstream if we focused on preventive health and disease treatment through nutrition and healthful lifestyles instead of disease management and symptom alleviation in our current pharmaceutical/profit driven system. The sad truth is that so many of us working in healthcare need sick people, not healthy people for our livelihoods. Mark 2:17 “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.”

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