Universal Health Care?
Recently Catholic Exchange reproduced a letter from the USCCB to the Senate Committee on Finance titled, Health Care Reform and the Dignity of Life.
The letter from the Bishops was reminding the politicians that health care was a basic human right that all humans need to live a dignified life and therefore the government should provide unverisal health care coverage. I replied to this article and I duplicate my reply below:
As much as I agree that health care is a right, it’s also right that all people should strive for a healthy lifestyle.
Let’s ask why health care costs are uncontrollable today. It’s simply because humans have relinquished responsibility for their health and passed it on a silver platter to the medical professionals and Big Pharma.
The basic question to ask are the following:
1. what caused our illness
2. how do we cure the cause (as opposed to controlling or managing the symptoms as being practiced today)
3. how do we ensure we don’t fall ill again
As Christians we have been taught that disease is the result of the Fall. I agree with that but that doesn’t mean we can’t be healthy. Almost every disease is the result of some sinful behavior on our part. Let’s look at them…
Sloth – we have become lackadaisical with regards to what we eat and drink. Result – cardiac illness, diabetes, cancer
Envy – instead of being grateful for what we have, we envy what someone else has instead of blessing them. Result – depression and to some extent panic attacks and anxiety.
Lust – Sexual lust results in every sexually transmitted disease, most abortions (which in turn play a heavy role in depression and breast cancers).
Greed – wanting more power and money for their own ends always leaves us unsatisfied. If there was a more benevolent goal in life for amassing wealth and power like uplifting the plight of the downtrodden, we will have less depression and unhappiness. Numerous research has shown that unhappiness leads to heart diseases and mental problems.
Wrath – forever scheming to destroy someone else emotionally or physically, creates hormonal imbalances inside our bodies that will eventually eat into us a results in mental conditions, heart diseases and even cancers.
I’ll stop here, but you get the picture. It definitely is sin that causes diseases and if we return to living life as God intended, including eat the right foods, we can prevent or at least reduce risks of disease. Then we don’t have to depend of expensive drugs.
My belief is that God has created all the cures that we need for all our diseases in the flora and fauna He created. Maybe that’s also what He meant when He said to subdue the earth. But we are lazy and prefer to rely on quick fixes like drugs.
I used to work in Big Pharma for 22 years and left recently because I finally couldn’t take the unethical practices and derision of natural (God-created) remedies. If you’re exposed to natural heath care remedies, you’d be surprised that they can actually cure diseases.
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Do your part in reducing health care costs. Don’t wait for the government.