More Health Care Sharing in the Media
A local Fox station did a piece on member ministry Medi-Share:
Holy alternative to health insurance
They’ve been around for 16 years but they say interest in what they do has increased as many folks are looking to opt out of regular insurance.How it works is every month members pay into the program. Medi-Share matches those monthly payments with other members medical bills Medi-Share then pays those bills and alerts the families who paid into the plan.
And a Samaritan Ministries member writes an Op-ed in the Altavista, VA Journal:
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Nine years ago, in November of 2000, after several months of research, my wife Cathy and I decided to distance ourselves as far as possible from the health care train wreck. At that time, we joined a health care sharing ministry called Samaritan Ministries International, a group of 13,000-plus households representing about 44,000 people that have chosen to share their medical financial burdens.Samaritan Ministries is just one of several such organizations that are estimated to include 100,000 in total. Since that November nine years ago, we’ve been blessed with good health, while at the same time we have joyfully helped others in need to the tune of about $30,000. Now Congress wishes to punish us for being prudent, responsible, healthy and compassionate.
As the specter of socialized health care evolved, it became painfully clear that there would be provisions to punish any that should choose to not participate in an approved health insurance plan. That means us.
We’re hopeful that media attention like this will serve our efforts to get an exemption in the final version of whatever health care reform bill comes through congress, similar to the language in the Senate Finance bill that passed committee earlier this week.