In Jesus’ version of health care, Christians healed the sick, often at considerable personal sacrifice (see Luke 10:25-37). In the liberal version, Christians are absolved from healing the sick by enacting a government entitlement to health care, so that those who are sick can commandeer the resources of others for their care. They don’t have to pay doctors, borrow money, or buy health insurance for medical emergencies, but simply demand others pick up their bills.

Under existing policy, this means they can appear at hospital emergency rooms for treatment of minor ailments rather than use over-the-counter medications or pay out-of-pocket to see primary-care physicians during their regular hours, leaving those with genuine emergencies to spend long ordeals awaiting treatment.

Under liberal visions of "universal health care," it means everyone is on Medicaid, no longer responsible for paying doctors, and no longer responsible for rejecting smoking, drugs, alcoholism, and unhealthy foods, or for taking on exercise, stringent diets, and vitamins to exercise stewardship over the "temples of the Holy Spirit" given them by God.

My question is this: Is the Christian charity Jesus requires in telling his disciples to heal the sick to enact a system of health-care irresponsibility?

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I have a panic disorder and a psychotic disorder. My mother is drinking herself to death and my father is going senile. I have a supportive by very pushy girlfriend. What can I do with my mother? She will not go into treatment and right now she’s laying in her chair drunk and vomiting. My father can do nothing but help as much as he can. My girlfriend is good to me but she pushes me to get off of my medication and pushes me into extremely uncomfortable situations in order to try to break my illness.
Right now I’m getting a cold and I am freaking out. I have no health insurance and my medication is running out. Please help me. I’d commit suicide if it weren’t for my girlfriend and my own fear of death.

The twist is that I’m 20, my grandparents adopted me and my real mother just moved out(she doesn’t drink but is very ill with depression). Now no one can take care of my while my adopted parents suffer. I just want to die, there’s no one I can turn to. I don’t know how to live a normal life like everyone else. please help me.

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I need help !! How can I get inpatient treatment for alcoholism with out having health insurance? I am so sick of drinking that i’d commit a misdemeanor just to get locked up for a few days as long as it’s not anything real bad. Anyone known anybody that might have went thru some thing similar? Any help in this matter i’d be very thankful!! I got bad anexity problems, so going to AA meetings are almost out of the question.

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