Well, I can say that I definitely made a mistake trying to break up my thoughts on health care into multiple posts, rather than one big one. In Part 1, I laid out what I believe to be a Christian view on where provision of health care belongs, and on the role of government, as seen in Scripture.
In short, the basic principle is this – It is the job of Christians and the church to help bring healing to the world. It is the job of the government to provide for the common defense, a system of justice and rules for civil order. We have reached the current crossroads because both have failed in their mission to this point.
Now, the question at hand, though, because of current events, is what should the government do about health care. Some have taken the previous article as an argument for the status quo, which it was not. It was simply a statement of my belief that Christians should not be content with the government taking a role that should belong to them and to the church. It was also a warning that such a move of government, outside of its Sciprutal boundaries, is a move toward entitlement and further enslavement of its people.
What this is and is not
Now, though, I would like to outline some ideas – things that the government can do that are within its boundaries – that would help fix the current system. This is not to say that I do not think the church should be actively involved in helping to fix the problem by filling the current void. I think that the creation of hospitals, clinics and other provision of care should be at the forefront of the church’s mind, not just the “spiritual” well-being of the people. This compartmentalization (of the spiritual from the physical) is a disaster, aided and abetted by the fundamentalist tradition of the past 100 years.
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