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Health/Medical Title: Christians Can Opt Out of ObamaCare. This Outrages Lefties. Tough. Christians Can Opt Out of ObamaCare. This Outrages Lefties. Tough. Written by Gary North on February 3, 2015 My wife is a member of Christian Health Care Ministries. At age 64, she pays $1,000 a year. What are you paying? You are probably younger, yet you pay more. You are forced to do this by ObamaCare. My wife is exempt from ObamaCare. Maybe you can be, too. If you are a Christian, you can cut your health insurance costs by half maybe more. You can stay out of ObamaCares clutches. Its all legal. These programs got onto the need not comply list in 2010. Its the law. Its a done deal. The Republicans in Congress are not about to put their constituents back into the skin them for other peoples health care pot. The horses are out of Obamas barn. This has the Left in a tizzy fit. The thought of it! Bible-believing Christians get a free pass. The atheists must pay full scale. But ObamaCare is a wealth redistribution scheme, as voters know now. So, atheists pay for ObamaCares welfare clients, too. Christians dont pay this if they dont want to. My wife does not want to. Tough providence, atheists! You got Obama. Then he got you. You deserve each other. Warm fuzzies to you all. Read a cry of Leftist moral outrage in The New York Times. The author is an untenured assistant professor on the public payroll at the University of North Carolina. If she gets tenure, she will be in fat city for the rest of her career. But if she doesnt, she faces this prospect: teaching at a community college as an untenured adjunct instructor who makes $20/hour, with no health insurance or retirement program, by teaching 150 mediocre (or worse) students each term. You can read about this here. Grim. She needs published articles to get tenure. She needs them in respected journals not The Journal of Comparative Obscurity. Maybe she hopes that an op-ed piece in The New York Times will count. This assumes that her departments tenure evaluation committee has adopted this principle: screeds = scholarship. She writes this: The four main cost-sharing ministries in the United States have about 340,000 members. Regulators in several states have raised concerns that these ministries offer the illusion of insurance while sidestepping the Affordable Care Acts baseline standards of coverage and skirting requirements that apply to conventional insurance companies, like minimum cash reserves. Nonetheless, membership in the ministries has been growing, particularly since the act granted them an exemption as one of the only ways to avoid the laws mandate to buy insurance without paying a fine. But the debate over consumer protections may disguise a more interesting question: Could this model scale up? These ministries seem to achieve a remarkable level of member satisfaction, even if they sometimes must portion out reimbursements when the bills outstrip monthly contributions. The ministries appeal lies partly in their low fees, but also in their ideological boundaries. This isnt something thats for everyone, said Tony Meggs, the C.E.O. of the Florida-based Christian Care Ministry, which runs a health care sharing program called Medi-Share. Theological liberals and atheists need not apply. Christian cost-sharing ministries have been around for about 30 years. They claim that their true origins lie in the Book of Acts, the biblical account of how the first Christians had everything in common and gave to anyone as he had need. The ministries show the world something that works, and works well, and is a reflection of the commandments of Christ, Mr. Meggs said. For thirty years, these ministries have beaten the insurance industry in terms of price. Now that they are legal under ObamaCare, they have a huge price edge. Today, Medi-Share requires members to live by biblical standards: no tobacco or illegal drugs and no sex outside of traditional Christian marriage. Samaritan Ministries, with headquarters in Peoria, Ill., requires a pastors approval of medical expenses (and refuses to cover treatment for S.T.D.s unless contracted innocently). Liberty HealthShare, based in Independence, Ohio, is the only Affordable Care Act-exempt ministry open to people of many faiths. It asks them to affirm that it is my spiritual duty to God and my ethical duty to others to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Fornicators need not apply. The great insight of the New Deal reformers was that fetishizing a romantic idea of community is as perilous as making a false idol of the free market. Cost-sharing ministries nurture one kind of community, but only by opting out of the broader obligations of society. To make the Affordable Care Act stick, and to make it work, means convincing more Americans that they are not just their brothers keeper. To use the language of John Calvin: there is no chance. If you are theologically eligible, and you want out of ObamaCares high-premium health care options, click here. So, heres the deal. First, avoid ObamaCares fines. Second, cut your health care premiums in half (or more), permanently. Third, force liberals and atheists to pick up your share of ObamaCares wealth redistribution burden. What could be better? Dont just sit there. Start shopping. If you know someone else who may be eligible, email a link to this article. It may save that person a bundle of money. Continue Reading on www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/opinion/sunday/onward-christian-health-care.html?_r=1
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force liberals and atheists to pick up your share of ObamaCares wealth redistribution burden Let's have some congressional orders ... waiving the oboma 666 - mandate --- for everyone ! comprehension level mid high school
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
Its the law Its a done deal. The Republicans in Congress are not about to put their constituents back into the skin them for other peoples health care pot.
With Leftists, Marxists, Communists and Terrorists - NOTHING is ever a done deal. They never give up. Never admit defeat. Never take the blame. No truer words have ever been spoken.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Good luck with that, one side is almost as bad as the other.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
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