{"id":507,"date":"2009-09-30T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2009-09-30T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T15:57:00","slug":"southern-baptist-convention-politics-trump-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Southern Baptist Convention: Politics trump morality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unbelievably (or not), considering <\/i>Richard Land’s <\/i><\/a>history, <\/i>this position on health reform<\/i><\/a>:<\/i><\/p>\n

In his August 18, 209 press release<\/a>, Dr. Land states that he opposes the current House bill, H.R. 3200<\/a>, but does believe that health care reform is needed.
According to Land, he “recognize[s] the need to rework certain elements of the health care equation in America. While the health care industry in the U.S. is relatively robust, it is not without flaws. And there is a segment of the American population, either because of their income level or their medical condition, that needs responsible and well-regulated government assistance.”
Dr. Land doesn’t believe that greater government involvement is the answer. Dr. Land believes that tort reform is one of the biggest avenues of savings in the health care industry. He states, “If we had tort reform, just tort reform, getting the stinking, rotten lawyers out of the business of ambulance chasing, we would eliminate about $50 billion of medical costs every year that doctors have to pay for malpractice insurance which is then passed on to you in the form of bills.”
Dr. Land does believe that in a country as prosperous as the United States, every one should have guaranteed access to some level of health care, though he rejects government involvement. According to Land, the “answer is to provide alternatives and incentives for most people to be in health care that they provide for themselves, and then the government can focus like a laser on those who aren’t able to provide it for themselves and you give them a basic level of health care. If I could use the car analogy, everybody should have a Chevrolet. Those who can afford it can get Cadillacs or even Mercedes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is amazing that Mr. Land’s SBC seems to have more in common philisophically with <\/i>Ayn Rand <\/i><\/a>than <\/i>Jesus Christ<\/i><\/a>. Or <\/i>the Pope<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unbelievably (or not), considering Richard Land’s history, this position on health reform: In his August 18, 209 press release, Dr. Land states that he opposes the current House bill, H.R. … Continue reading “Southern Baptist Convention: Politics trump morality”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ayn-rand","category-moral-arguments","category-social-justice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}