Jesus never supported an institutional health care system, that would have been the realm of the money changers.
Why? Do we expect the bankers to do the surgeries? I only know I would much rather trust a Roman doctor than a Jewish faith healer.
Jesus believed in helping people by teaching them to fish
He filled their nets with miracle fish. How does that teach them how to fish? They were fishermen long before Jesus showed up. Do you think they just sat around in the desert casting their nets?
Social Justice demands that we give people a fish.
Yes, because they are starving NOW. Teach them to fish when they're FULL.
Social justice is just a modern form of slavery.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
He was having his feet washed, so you think he should refuse the woman's generosity.
Dude can't wash his own feet?
Jesus didn't believe in handouts.
Every single miracle is a handout.
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
But not at the RNC. You'll get lots of slammed doors there.
Yet Jesus traveled around handing out his services, he never got paid did he??
Not technically, but he also never worked anywhere and just bummed around Galilee living off everyone else's dime.
He always let people make their own decisions, even while they crucified him.
They were supposed to. It was God's plan all along.
Jesus did not give money to the poor. He did not work a job and give all of his money to them.
He didn't have a job. He shouldn't lecture the employed about what to do with money.
Its not about owing anyone anything. It's about doing the right thing. And that is to care for our sick regardless of how much money they have. We have the right to a free education here. Health care is just as important. I would much rather see my tax dollars going toward a worthy cause such as this than many of the other things it goes to.
Amen!
I imagine a universal health care system for all in the USA would be a similar story.
I seriously don't know why we just don't expand Medicare. It has to be cheaper than what we have now.
You see it as not compassionate because we refuse to hand over loads of cash to fix the problem short term. Which it would. We are thinking long term success here, where hopefully the majority of people are standing on their own 2 feet and does not need help.
Republicans also don't want to invest in education (sex or otherwise), which is why we can't have nice things.
Morgan Freeman agrees here as he calls bulls**t on Don Lemon for saying that black folk are not able to pull themself up by their bootstraps.
Not everyone becomes discovered and joins Hollywood either. There are tons of working poor who use up way more elbow grease than any CEO.
If the government pays for all healthcare they also control your health.
I'm a female. They ALREADY want to control my health and I am not even on Medicare yet.
If we can figure out a way to do it without giving up the freedom, sure, but thats just not possible becauae currently we cant afford it.
"If we can figure out a way to do it so I'm not personally inconvenienced, then sure."
Because I did not sign up for Obamacare because I already had insurance I pay for. I still got charged $250 tax for not signing up for Obamacare.
Your tax preparer screwed you. I don't have Obamacare and I didn't have to pay any penalty. They want you to have insurance. They really don't care how you get it.
I want poverty stricken people to break the chains of poverty so that they don't need my help.
I'm sure that person making 7 bucks an hour can just sign up for Harvard and make themselves "better".
Out of nowhere about a year ago they just pulled the coverage on all 4. Now he cant get them reinsured because be is refused and he cant afford regular insurance. I just have not seen any positives come from Obamacare.
So he should find an affordable lawyer and give all the relevant information. There are "hardship" clauses.