A church in North Carolina has again unburdened thousands of families who were struggling with medical debt, setting their obligations ablaze.
Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem bought up and canceled nearly $3.3 million in medical debt belonging to 3,355 families.
-WiscoDave
Those are good peoples; I know a few and they are not in it for the publicity.
ReplyDeleteI'll encourage a visit to their website as well.
ReplyDeleteNow they need to FIGHT for REAL medical freedom in this country. The presence of third party payer insurance, the FDA, the CDC, the massive regulatory state, government control over licensure, insurance, and everything else, has driven costs through the roof and freedom into the toilet. I applaud these gestures, but before all of this government-created insanity, medicine was affordable for most, even with only one salary supporting a multi-child family.
ReplyDeleteVery well stated
DeleteIt was known in the mid 70's that Medicare and Medicaid were the primary driving forces of medical cost increases.
DeleteGood stuff.
ReplyDelete3.3 million by 3300+ families comes to roughly a thousand dollars a family. I'll bet most of those families have more credit card debt than that. While a thousand dollars isn't chicken feed, it also isn't a big medical bill. Fifteen years ago, eight hours in the emergency room cost me $15,000.
ReplyDelete13 years ago my half of a 2 mile ambulance ride was $850.
DeleteAmbulance operation wanted over $600 to carry my son 60 miles to the mortuary. That's in 2006, can't imagine what it would be today. NOTHING is cheap, but medical is absolutely insane.
ReplyDeleteI don't know the laws in Idaho but you probably could've transported him yourself. In California, you can but you have to contact the sheriff of every county you'll be passing through and you can't deviate not one mile from your preselected route.
DeleteA guy I used to work with was killed up at Lake Tahoe and his father, who I also worked with, transported him home. That's how I know. Or knew - that was 35 years ago, so I may be full of shit now.
This is exactly the kind of thing that a church should be doing. Not making huge buildings and making their Pastors rich or buying them jet airplanes. Who do those Pastors think they are, the leader of the NRA or something?
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I have to respect a church that takes the local people and tries to make their lives better. What greater outreach than that can they do, than to minister to their physical needs? That was how Jesus met the people, before He tried to speak to their spiritual condition, He would look to their physical needs, like healing them, or feed them.
Too many churches ignore the people, other than to scold them for how bad they are, and then expect them to come into their building on Sunday. Good luck with that.
Fuck Wayne and his posse.
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