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Basically, a provision in the current health care debate could become law whereby all Americans are obligated to buy health care insurance if it's not provided for you and your family by your job, or if you are uninsured at present. The Fed promises the premiums will be affordable but we know better! Point being, if this law passes would uninsured Christians be obligated under the Pauline doctrine in Romans 13:5 to obey even if it meant they had to cut to the bone on everything else to pay the premiums?
Yeah but car insurance is for the protection of the guy you might crash into! Big difference. Health care is supposed to be a personal choice thing. If Joe Schmoe chooses to not have insurance then that is his choice.
Yeah but car insurance is for the protection of the guy you might crash into! Big difference. Health care is supposed to be a personal choice thing. If Joe Schmoe chooses to not have insurance then that is his choice.
When a person get's in a car crash and is about to die and is taken in ambulance to the hospital, the hospital is then required to pay (treat them for free) if they don't have ins. Which in turn shows up in our cost of ins.
I don't know. Considering the fact that uninsured people run the risk of spreading serious illness if they are not treated isn't it in the best interest of all of us to have everyone insured? If the government had the power to insure everyone I would hope they would require it. We shouldn't let ideology get in the way of common sense. And what does any of this have to do with being Christian?
I don't know. Considering the fact that uninsured people run the risk of spreading serious illness if they are not treated isn't it in the best interest of all of us to have everyone insured? If the government had the power to insure everyone I would hope they would require it. We shouldn't let ideology get in the way of common sense. And what does any of this have to do with being Christian?
And here comes the real "strings that are attached". Mandatory vaccinations, and next thing you know, mandatory checkups and institutionalized programs for physical rehabilitation etc ... Say goodbye to holistic remedies and things that actually work as cures instead of simply treating the symptoms like most prescribed treatments and meds.
Sometimes i think people would follow the government right off a cliff the whole time thinking it was the right thing to do ...
I think...correct me if I'm wrong...but I think the OP's question was not the validity of government's right to make the law, but whether Christians' consciences' would compel them to go out and get the insurance, even at great cost to their already fragile finances.
I think...correct me if I'm wrong...but I think the OP's question was not the validity of government's right to make the law, but whether Christians' consciences' would compel them to go out and get the insurance, even at great cost to their already fragile finances.
Indeed, in that case i would say that depends on what kind of government we have? And it would have to do something with whether or not America is truly a country/government of the people by the people. If that is truly the case, then at certain times civil disobedience is a necessary and integral part of our duties as citizens of America and beneficiaries of the constitutional republic for which it stands. I know what that means to me ... But i don't know what that means to other people ... Or even if most other people even know what that means at all anymore ...
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Point being, if this law passes would uninsured Christians be obligated under the Pauline doctrine in Romans 13:5 to obey even if it meant they had to cut to the bone on everything else to pay the premiums? 
