When you take the humanity out of the heal care equation and make no mistake this is what the GOP does. You are stuck with risk/reward, cost analysis, and a matrix to determine how many you want to survive.
We all know that preemptive health care is the most cost effective health care in the long run and catastrophic heath care is the most expensive. But the GOP wants to move as many as possible into the catastrophic column.
My overall biggest gripe in regards to faith, the GOP, and government is this. They continually bang the drum of our Government being built on "Christian Principals" but as they walk through the doors to the Chambers to do the peoples work, they constantly put on and take off their "Christian Capes." When it comes to health care and other entitlements they conveniently take their cloaks off and grab their abacus to calculate the minimum they are willing to spend to keep x amount of people alive.
Being a member of Congress gives a Christian the greatest ability to feed the poor, heal the sick, and take care of the least and this is what the GOP despise doing.
There is a passage in Paul where it discusses Paul's meeting with the other Apostles and the part that has always amazed me was what the other Apostles wanted to talk to Paul about. Was it his conversion? Was it what he was preaching? Was it about a doctrine or a theology? NO and again I say NO. All they wanted to know from him and how they judged him and his ministry was "Did he take care of the poor."
So the GOP can tell me how religious they are and how they are doing the Lord's work. But I will evaluate them by the same criteria that the Apostles measured Paul...Do you take care of the poor...and sadly if I was grading them a F would not be a low enough grade.
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