Health Savings Accounts are great
for small businesses, big business, and the young middle class. They help keep costs down and help relatively healthy people save money (I have one, and love it. My paycheck's a little fatter each week, and I can simultaneously save money--tax free--for the future).They are not, as GDub would have us believe, the cure all for the health care crisis in this country. There's too many poor people with no health care. The President's response,"They (HSAs) help the uninsured. A lot of folks with incomes under $50,000 are buying these plans," doesn't cut it. Sure, if you make 50 grand a year and are pretty healthy, you can afford to stash some money away for a rainy, more sickly day. But, for families that make under, oh $30,000 a year, these things are meaningless.
Where's the righteous Christian indignation the President and so many of his supporters invoke when they're defending marriage or the 10 commandments?
1 John 3:17 But if someone who is supposed to be a Christian has money enough to live well, and sees a brother in need, and won't help him--how can God's love be within him ? 1 John 3:18 Little children, let us stop just saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions. 1 John 3:19 Then we will know for sure, by our actions, that we are on God's side, and our consciences will be clear, even when we stand before the Lord.
Oh--one other thing--what the eff is up with these backgrounds and stage sets for the President's speeches? They're always so crisp and polished. Why is signage the only thing our government's compotent at anymore?
posted by Rob Moran at 9:56 AM
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I'm not sure he said they were th e"cure-all". I haven't seen that quote. He said people are using them and benefiting from them.
Also regarding the John quotes, this is doing something to help. I realize that the job isn't finished. There are many other citizens that are without care. But they aren't just standing by. This is just a step in the right direction. How is it helpful to say things like this? "Where's the righteous Christian indignation the President and so many of his supporters invoke when they're defending marriage or the 10 commandments?"
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No, the President never came out and explicitly stated, "Health Savings Accounts are the cure all for the health care crisis." I don't think that'd go over too well. But, other than these accounts he's only offered the woefully inadequate and mismanaged privatization of the Medicare prescription drug benefit, and tort reform. Neither of those things really help poor people with no health care; their largest beneficiaries are businesses and insurance companies.
HSAs are not a step in the right direction; they're simply an attractive option for people that can already afford healthcare.
And, for the record, I never said my blog was helpful to anyone.
It just baffles my mind and heart sometimes that evangelical Christians can spend so much time and effort lobbying for laws that will ultimately make life harder and less equal for significant segments of the population and on trivial things like the posting of the 10 Commandments, all while the most vulnerable among us can't afford to take their kids to the doctor.
First, there will always be people sick and in need of help from the more fortunate population. If you do not balance your efforts, ie: helping the sick and hungry, standing up for the rights of this country, everything can be destroyed.
It is all about balance. And one of the things to balance are the morals of this country.
This gets to be a touchy subject but this country was founded on the morals of a God fearing group of christains. And it is hard to justify allowances that are not justified based on those morals.
I'm not sure I completely understand your response--there will always be sick poor people, so we'd better conentrate on making life tougher for the gays?
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