If you want to get riled up over healthcare, here are some things to think about:
Every 10 minutes, someone in the world dies of HIV/AIDS, a disease that we now have the capacity to expunge from the face of the planet.
Half a million people (most under the age of 5) will die this year of Malaria, a disease that is both treatable and preventable.
Lack of access to clean water kills more people than almost ANYTHING else and would only cost $20 billion to make it available to everyone (by comparison, americans spend $450 billion/ year on "Christmas").
One in four children in the United States goes to bed hungry every night.
5 comments:
Well said! :D
My heart breaks for every situation you mentioned. Should solving these world crises be the federal governments job? I like to think that if Christians tithed, the church could solve so many social issues and the federal governments role wouldn't have to be so large. I also have seen first hand a friend who caught cat scratch disease, and because of socialized healthcare, couldn't get in to a hospital. Luckily his house mother was able to keep him alive!! Just a few thoughts...the book is not closed. :)
ps- I was referring to my friend in Russia in my previous post.
I'm not implying that these are US government's job to solve. They, like the whole of healthcare, are multi-faceted problems that will take MANY hands to fix. A great many NGOs are already hard at work the world over... but I do think it's telling that we as a country will spend $1 trillion on the war in Iraq and yet hundreds of thousands of people die of diseases that are relatively inexpensive to treat.
I just have a hard time getting all riled up over the healthcare debate to the point of calling it a "crisis" when, from a global perspective (which I would argue everyone must have these days) it is hardly a crisis.
And yes, the Church should be doing more but until that actually happens, something has to bridge the gap.
I agree fully. I just wish Christian's would rally to do something instead of spending all of their precious time rallying against what they AREN'T for. I am actually writing a blog on this topic.
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