Posted on 10/04/2013 2:57:21 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Thanks.
you might want to send that info to the CEO of Hobby Lobby.
The essential thing to remember is the technical, legal reason the insurance industry is regulated, including Obamacare, is that it is a contract, an affirmative agreement that if you pay your premiums, you will get the coverage, period.
Christian healthcare co-ops circumvent said regulation because they are not a rigid contract. They are more an expression of religious belief that Christians should share each other’s needs. So it shifts the basis for coverage from secular contract to faith-based mutual dependence among believers.
Therefore the type of things covered by these co-ops can be limited according to the religious beliefs of the group. No abortions, no cosmetic surgery, no help for people with self-destructive habits like smoking or illegal drugs, etc. They also are somewhat limited on preexisting conditions, though each of those listed below has a somewhat different approach.
http://samaritanministries.org
Below is a pretty good news story looking at some of the pros and cons of the Christian healthcare sharing approach:
http://www.americanownews.com/story/19033588/christian-health-care-sharing
Hope this helps.
Peace,
SR
Interesting point. As CEO, I’d be stunned if he didn’t already know, and has some business-based reason for choosing to stick with traditional insurance. But sure, maybe it just never occurred to him or his HR people. I could try to send him some info and see what happens.
The other thing is, I wonder if we could reverse-Cloward-Pivin Obamacare (starve it) using something like this. If huge numbers of people bail out of standard insurance and into one of these alternate paradigm exceptions, both for cost and for conscience sake, it could disrupt the progression toward single payer, which is supposed to be based on “the masses” being discontent with all intermediate “solutions.” The drafters of the bill no doubt believed that few would want use such an exception, because too many people have become accustomed to and would insist on standard healthcare. But if we could defy that expectation, and have large, and I mean hugh and series, numbers of people jamming into the exception, then the exception could swallow the rule, disengage the necessary discontent, and thereby derail the “nudge” to single payer.
bookmark here, thanks for posting it
There's a LOT that the IRS "can't" do that it does anyway.
Yet!
I’m sure rush Limbaugh is purchasing some small insurance policy just not to have to pay more taxes to the Feds. He doesn’t need insurance but oh well.
I’m sure rush Limbaugh is purchasing some small insurance policy just not to have to pay more taxes to the Feds. He doesn’t need insurance but oh well.
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All wealthy people will pay the fine as another tax that doesn’t really affect them. It is an infitesimal part of their wealth. They will continue to self insure and pay out of pocket for good health care.
Most of the government elected officials are wealthy enough to not have to be in the government system. They don’t care.
If I know Rush, he’d rather pay Aetna than Obama.
I think if you pay for the government plan you have to abide by its rules.
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