Megan and I wrestle with insurance bills as I'm sure many of you do. We were pretty floored as we came off of the sorts of stripped down individual plans that poor college and graduate students get. It's pretty expensive, more than we had planned on. We don't really enjoy paying that monthly bill (we have it automatically withdrawn to keep us from having to physically write it out). So I can see why people want to change the system. Plus when you see other people making so much money, it's a tough bill to write. I'm thinking that there is probably some good ideas out there. Ways the industry could be more efficient, maybe increased competition could somehow lower costs. But as I start to think about the scope and depth of the issue, another aspect of Megan and my experience comes to mind.
See just as we were getting aquainted with the true cost of insuring a young family on one salary out of the blue came the extra money we needed. It is another in the long line of demonstrations of provision that have taught me to trust the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to take care of me. So while I'm not checked out of our countries health care conversation, I pay attention with the understanding that in the end I'm taken care of by the God who sent Jesus...regardless of my health care situation.
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Matthew 6-25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life
32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.