It’s not just tea-partiers and Obamaniacs and birthers and astroturfies and soylent greens and death panels who are trying to hijack the health care reform process. Now religious groups are getting involved:
A coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders has launched a national campaign for health care reform, calling it a “fundamental religious issue,” in hopes of countering the vocal opposition exhibited at recent town hall meetings.
How is it a “fundamental religious issue”? Well, if he’d had health insurance, then Jesus might not have died on the cross. Similarly, Khadijah may have received better end-of-life treatment, which could have averted the Year of Sorrow. And if profit-seeking insurance-company bureaucrats hadn’t considered Abraham’s foreskin a “pre-existing condition,” he wouldn’t have had to circumcise himself.
The Muslims seem to be moving first, offering a proposal for a new dental plan:
The residents say anyone seen with a silver or gold tooth is taken to a masked man who then rips them out with pincers or his hands. The Shabab says gold and silver teeth are used for fashion and beauty, which is against strict interpretations of Islam, residents said.
But I’m sure the Jews and Christians have lots of good ideas too!
I think they are getting confused because Jesus taught about healing the sick. But they completely misunderstood the point of Jesus’ message. As is made quite clear in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus’ universal health care plan only applies to ethnic Jews (i.e. “the lost sheep of the house of Israel”).
Non-Jews are considered “out of network” and will have to pay for miracles out-of-pocket.