Scientific discovery and applications of science, are gifts that can be used with a mindfulness of reverence. Let us examine medicine as one of the most important applications of science. Most of the naturally growing herbs, roots, plants etc. have long-proven, lab, and time tested abilities- both in the lab and in practical use, to treat almost every disease known to man, even today. And, some of the most expensive Rx’s on the market, have nothing more than a basic herbal ingredient as the active ingredient.
But who in America has access to it? And does the government control the market?
A legal team that exploits medical knowledge and discovery, to simply “make” a servile patient for life who is to become dependent on the state, dependent on an unjust financial transaction, or used further to create unhealthy social dependencies on a health care system… that is not Christianity in action. That is slavery. And, processing immigrants for this purpose is not Christianity either. Though for willful treatment, medicine can be a blessing to the patient who can get better with the help of amazing scientific based help.
Requiring by law, health workers and patients alike, to abandon their principle and conviction… that is not Christianity either.
Our nation treats some of the wealthy elite from all over the world for example, while neglecting our vulnerable. Too often, hospitals struggle with the challenges also.
Some royals can afford US or European health costs, and they benefit from some of the most advanced technology and science available today. Sure, some impoverished people get care. But, not nearly enough of them. The wealthy can afford the best medicine advancement and can fly to get it from a variety of countries. Those patients and physicians have a nice arrangement going on. Meanwhile, the costs of war rehabilitation skyrocket as well, which increase the burdens on them, while illegal entry migrants experience better and more urgent treatment, than our returning soldiers often do today. Those who enter legally have every capacity to better our country. Those who don’t enter legally, are all too often a benefactor of the system temporarily.
Naturalized or born Americans, mostly, cannot afford American medicine anymore; and there is no excuse, for permitting patients to “participate” or languish in an unjust health-care system. There is a false image, that we are doing just fine with health-care in America. That exacerbates the problem; and even further so, when underwriters abandon their financial responsibility and “risk” in search of only lucrative medicininal delivery. Are we to permit immigrants to be the wave of patients who do not enter the country legally, to be exploited both by politics and medicine… while citizens receive ever increasing costs and more limited medicinal care?
Those persons who are outraged by the exploitation complain. We who understand the physicians oath, based on Christianity, to care for every patient regardless of financial ability to pay, understand that each country must care for its citizens in this way for most basic treatments against diseases and illnesses of all kind. We also must stand behind and for paliative medicine.
There is no excuse not to. And, it is an injustice to permit illegal entrants to get baited, or for elites to be the only ones to get care. Our citizens vastly, are forced to choose between hunger, their child’s hunger, and their daily pill(s).We must have medicine available to every citizen first. Then, we can offer it in generosity to those who enter with law abiding behaviors, integration intentions, and good will.
Any guest worker or legal, welcomed, migrant to the US, must be able to also receive health care only once naturalized, unless they suffer a legitimate medical emergency. The faith based hospital must be also free of government regulations, to donate its health care without even so much as one piece of paper or filing, if it so choose to.
While the majority of Americans suffer with outrageously expensive drug costs and service costs, we can enforce less than that? No! That is not justice, that is not Christian, that is not health centered around care.
Health “care” in our nation presently is quite possibly the biggest and longest lasting disaster that physicians and patients alike, are afflicted by. And yet, there are incredible miracles of science demonstrated every day in operating rooms, doctor offices, and hospitals. The weakness is not the educational ability, the potential of service, manpower, nor the ability to apply treatment. Rather, it’s the motivation of profit which underwriters in part control.
That is citizen servitude to the financiers! Christianity in action, is demonstrated in providing suitable health care for all people of the nation and we must require underwriters to pay more cost, while duly creating “real” pricing of services and medicines.
Procedural costs must be attached to real GDP and the real wages that people in our land produce. And, if a citizen have no way to pay, they must get the basic care they need. Health-care that encourages a lifetime of never healing, only serves the interests of the racketeers.
One way to begin to solve the problems, is to see that underwriters are not rewarded for clever legal jargon, that is carefully designed to protect profit; to deceive and bind the patient. And government also should be thinking of the patient. Contrary to the present model, the served patient is the beneficiary of science, who should advocate; and praises the Lord and the gifts of health.
With regard to prescription drugs, the most necessary and basic drugs can keep patients from facing an otherwise hellish existence. We know that there are some types of drugs that require lifetime use. At a bare minimum, each citizen must receive the most needed attention.
So, as one aspect of scientific progress, as it relate to Christianity, is all the medicines that manage the whole range of disease and sicknesses that we face. We must remain grateful for those advancements; but we must also never deny the most basic of necessary drug therapies.
Let us examine the Christianity of medical science in brief, from a few points.
1. The notion of healing:
Healing in one’s spiritual life, runs parallel to physical mind-body health. And science proves that Christianity improves health. So religion and medicine are both very connected.
The church is “a hospital for the sinner” as one of my friends once has said.
2. the notion of discovering physical improvement, cognition, and body:
Experiencing physical well being (including the right to rest) enables greater cognition. At the most basic cellular level, food builds cells and everything our body needs. There is no excuse for, and it is utterly shameful that America wastes food, and duly cannot feed every person living in America. We must have a functional system, before welcoming too many more. Even the fire departments insist on permitting just so many people into the room and no more, until the maximum occupancy is reduced. And, examining nature, we learn that overcrowding in the animal kingdom, encourages hostility and disarray. So we need to be mindful of our space.
Earth in its current state, requires borders. And those borders must be respected.
3. the notion of feeding our bodies’ cellular replication in order to be strong:
Just like a nation requiring structure and harvesting food, every cell in our bodies need regular supply of nutrients; nutrients which supply the well being and growth for replication and multiplication. We also need spiritual food in order to grow.
4. The notion that beyond biology, every scientific discovery can be applied to Christian purpose and obligations:
Science of biology (and all sciences) time and time again, confirm that we can deepen our understanding of Christianity and grow more healthy, by understanding the intrinsic likeness of natural characteristics of our world; and our own spiritual and physical growth. When we look for the connections, we discover the powers that inspire many acts of charity among very able bodied and resourced people and groups. We must not allow our jobs to become more difficult than they already are, by not opposing bad legal design. And we must be generous toward other lands as we are able and inspired to. This must be the case, as we await Christ’s second coming.