As a Christian, I have a problem opposing national health care. Why can't we take care of our sick who are in need? What would Jesus do?

Right now, doctors are beholden to profit-making corporations, and instead of a bureaucrat between you and your doctor, an employee of a profit-making corporation is making decisions that will determine how much money the corporation profits. That sounds immoral to me.

Here in the US, if you want to see a specialist, you have to see your primary care physician first (and you sometimes wait weeks for an appointment), and if they think you need to see the specialist, they write you a referral, which goes to the profit-making corporation to decide whether or not they will cover it - and that can take weeks, or even years if they decide not to cover it right away. Then you make the appointment to see the specialist, and the wait there can be weeks.

In Canada, you just make the appointment with the specialist directly. Even if you wait, it is a shorter wait than our system here in the US. I know, because a friend from Church moved there when her husband was transferred. She is very satisfied with her care - much more than she was in the US, and she has a son with heart issues.

If you don't have health insurance, doctors just won't take you. My son is dealing with that now. He needs an MRI, and has the $1800 for it, but can't find a doctor to prescribe it - the hospitals won't do one without a prescription. Clinics won't do it because his situation is too complicated. A woman in my Church had cancer 15 years ago, and her insurance company did a non-renewal, and she was never able to get health insurance for her small business after that. Now the cancer has come back; the only "free clinic" for cancer treatment in our area closed in January. We give her as much money as we can, but it doesn't come close enough to covering the chemo, so she only pays for pain meds and is getting her affairs in order.

If you are an irresponsible driver, you can still get car insurance through the high risk pool. If you buy a house in a flood plain, and your own homeowners insurance won't cover floods, you can purchase flood insurance through the government. Why can we protect property, but not lives? Isn't that immoral?

Why are we not out there proposing a moral system that will truly help people? People are dying for lack of care. I thought we had a right to life? What would Jesus do?