Posted on 03/20/2010 7:46:18 AM PDT by tobyhill
Most Americans would have to prove they have insurance or face a fine under the health reform legislation that is now nearing the finish line in Congress, but at least one group won't have to worry, on religious grounds.
Democrats are planning to exempt the Amish and similar religious groups from the health insurance mandate in the final health care bill.
That's because when the Amish need medical care, they go to regular doctors and hospitals and pay in cash often with financial help from their church and neighbors. They rely on each other, not the government or insurance companies as a tenet of their faith.
"The Amish believe it's the fundamental responsibility of the church to care for the material needs of the members of the church," said Steven Nolt, a professor at Goshen College who has written books on the Plain community of Amish.
"And so they don't buy commercial health insurance and they don't participate in public assistance programs."
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My new name will be Dwight Schrute, and I own a beet farm in Scranton, PA.
I’m a new kind of Amish. I believe in modern technology and automobiles.
Random musing alert...
Perfect. The Amish need to open Amish Health Care Portals allover America.
The Amish can afford to pay cash for healthcare because everyone buys their Amish granola mixes at the gas stations . . . not to mention the Amish heat surge units. (I have two of them and they do warm up my house)
This slight could lead to more terrorist activity. /s
> I’m a new kind of Amish. I believe in modern technology and automobiles.
Would that be Reformed Amish?
I’m going to join the Christian Scientists
I love the Amish. We could learn a lot from them.
It doesn’t matter if you are Amish if there is no doctor or a 5 mile line at the clinic
it doesn’t matter if the doctor speaks eubonics
That’s it. My church is going to be called the Reform Church For The Modern Amish. All laptops welcome.
Most of the posters at Hot Air have declared their Amishness already!
What’s to stop anyone from declaring he is Amish? And thereby getting out of the insurance mandate
That would make you a Mennonite then.
They also make this homemade bread that has some kind of homemade white cheese and homemade pork sausage all rolled into it. It is sooo good.
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