It Looks Like Health Insurance, but It's Not. 'Just Trust God

[StarryNite]

It Looks Like Health Insurance, but It's Not. 'Just Trust God,' Buyers Are Told.
By Reed Abelson, The New York Times


"Some state regulators are scrutinizing nonprofit Christian cost-sharing ministries that enroll Americans struggling to pay for medical care, but aren’t legally bound to cover their members’ claims.


Eight-year-old Blake Collie was at the swimming pool when he got a frightening headache. His parents rushed him to the emergency room only to learn he had a brain aneurysm. Blake spent nearly two months in the hospital.

His family did not have traditional health insurance. “We could not afford it,” said his father, Mark Collie, a freelance photographer in Washington, N.C.

Instead, they pay about $530 a month through a Christian health care sharing organization to pay members’ medical bills. But the group capped payments for members at $250,000, almost certainly far less than the final tally of Blake’s mounting medical bills."

[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/health/christian-health-care-insurance.html|

[ret5hd]

1. So what do ya do when god lies to ya?

Send more money!

[Skittles]

3. it is sad how easily people are fooled by the "church"

[Midnight Writer]

2. I know a guy who has this "insurance". He says if someone needs more $ folk in the group can donate.

He says he gets solicitations all the time from fellow members who need extra help. As a Christian organization, he tells me, they make sure to take care of their own.

I asked him, "Have you ever donated to any of these people asking for help?"

"Hell, no. I'm not going to pay for someone else's problems."

[keithbvadu2]

8. But he would accept that extra help?

[Maru Kitteh]

4. I hear that garbage being advertised on Sirius XM all the time

People have been handing their money over to charlatans at tent revivals for a very long time, this strikes me as being no different.

[stopbush]

5. Everything about Christianity is a scam.

Is anyone surprised by this? I’m not.

[gratuitous]

6. Just slap that "Christian" label on it

And the suckers will line up waving their money. Luckily for the Collies, North Carolina hasn't yet opted into the Medicaid expansion, so the whole state is ripe for the fleecing by the hucksters and the sharpers.

[StarryNite]

7. Purchase Insurance or Trust God?

"The teaching of the First Century Gospel Church of Philadelphia is founded on God’s Word—especially the New Testament. No true Christian in the entire Bible ever trusted in any thing or any one but God alone for protection—physically, financially, or otherwise. He alone is our Protector.

In 1974, the FCG Church’s stand against all insurance stated in a document that none of its members carry health, or any other type of insurance, as the entire system is against the principles of Bible teaching and practice—depending on a human plan that is seen and signed, instead of trusting on the living God who is unseen by faith.

[Statement continues] If this church, or any member of it, would accept automobile insurance against their conscience, it would repudiate [renounce] everything we ever taught and stood for all of our Christian lives. The foundation teaching of this church, and of the Bible, is to depend on God for everything in this life. No government that recognizes freedom of worship would ever expect any church group to go against the convictions of their religious beliefs. Our members would give up their vehicles rather than give up their principles of trust on God [unquote]."

This creepy shit goes on and on at the link:

[link:http://www.fcgchurch.org/Messages/Pages/Purchase%20Insurance%20or%20Trust%20God.html|

[keithbvadu2]

9. So God's love stops at $250 grand.

So God's love stops at $250 grand.

[Hestia]

10. +1 - Well Said

[area51]

11. One more reason why we need

comprehensive Medicare for All.