Best UseMyWallet Casinos – True Health Care Reform Is Found Only In The Bible
Posted in Healing Arts on May 21st, 2010 by Dania Margonda – Be the first to commentThe American Medical System is on its death bed, but government health care reform can never provide the cure.
Better grab your Best UseMyWallet Casinos and head for the hills when government proposes to “reform” anything. The only hope for any effective and efficient reform lies in the Bible and with the church.
<b>The Business Model<br>
Is Broken</b>
The current system is pretty good at what we might call “body & fender” work. But they are generally clueless about what’s going on under the hood and addressing the root causes of disease. Here is a short list of the deficiencies:
1) A mechanistic view of the body underlies the system, treating a diseased organ in isolation, like the independent systems of an automobile.
3) Treatment of symptoms with drugs fails to address the underlying pathology. Nutrition and natural healing techniques are typically suppressed.
4) Drugs usually have side-effects worse than the disease or its symptoms.
5) Costs are driven into the billions, with money wasted on marketing the alleged benefits of drugs to doctors and the general public.
All of this leads to skyrocketing costs and makes health care generally unavailable without so-called government assistance. The failures of the prevailing business model are legendary and invite government meddling to “fix” the problem with <em>health care reform</em>.
<b>The Government Model<br>
Is Lethal</b>
We clearly need health care reform, but we’ll never get it from big government. Government of course, presents itself as the cultural balm to heal all wounds. Instead it is the cultural bomb to wound all heels — the vast majority that refuses to accept responsibility. They expect the government to force somebody else to provide for their health, education and welfare.
The U.S. Constitution – flawed as it is – makes no provision for government health care. More important, there is no provision for government health care in the Bible.
Thus, civil government has no business meddling in health care beyond punishing medical malpractice. Anything more is usurping the social function of God and his church, which God will surely punish.
<b>The Biblical Model Of<br>
True Health Care Reform</b>
The Biblical approach addresses both the mode of healing and the method of delivery.
First, we must recognize the church as the God-ordained cultural institution of healing. The words “salvation” and “salve” are derived from the same root. We have seen how the government model and the business model of healing alike are terminal and beyond reviving.
New Testament elders have a similar responsibility for healing duties. Even before consulting a doctor, a sick person is told to summon the elders to pray for him and apply medicinal oil (James 5:14). The operative Greek word is not chrio (annoint), but aleipho (apply). This represents application of the best medical means of the day along with appeal to God as the Great Physician. It is not simply a ceremonial anointing.
Thus, the church must reclaim health care as an aspect of Christian ministry. When profit enters the picture, the best interests of the patient soon take a back seat. Legalized (prescription) drug sales become the driving factor. Civil government gets involved not for profit, but for power. Health care is the proper domain of the church. It is funded by tithes and offerings, so that no one is excluded for lack of means.
The church must gradually reclaim this lost ministry. At least two things are required: 1) Elders must study to develop a doctrine of medicine so they can recognize quackery and guide their flock away from ineffective practice. 2) Individuals gifted in the healing arts must be funded by the tithe, possibly as part of the deaconate.
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