The Governor is a pastor and a license physician, both positions
required an oath. "First Do No
Harm" From the Hippocratic Oath? If
the Hippocratic Oath guides physicians, perhaps we pastors can be guided by a
“Hypocritical” Oath. This would entail coming to terms with the fact that
despite, or because of, being hypocrites ourselves, we do not therefore stop
proclaiming the truths of a gospel that transcends us all in order to transform
us all. Rather, week after week as we pastors rise to proclaim the living word
of God, we should first preach to ourselves and then to the congregation. The Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable
Care Act (ACA) allowed states to opt out of the law's Medicaid expansion,
leaving each state's decision to participate in the hands of the nation's governors
and state leaders. Gov. Robert Bentley on Tuesday said Alabama will not create
a state insurance exchange under the federal health care law, nor will it
expand Medicaid as it currently exists. Bentley, speaking in Birmingham, said
both options are too expensive. “I am not going to set up a state-based
exchange that will create a tax burden of up to $50 million on the people of
Alabama,” he said. As Americans across
the nation begin to find out what Obamacare has in store for them, many of
Mississippi's most needy will find out the answer is nothing. Since the state
decided not to expand the Medicaid program for the poor under President Barack
Obama's Affordable Care Act. As a result, nearly 300,000 adults there will fall
through the cracks of healthcare reform. How much of a difference does living
in Alabama make? Here's the difference between what a family of three—a working
parent with two dependants—would have to make in Minnesota and Alabama in order
to qualify for subsidized insurance. Meaning: In Alabama, a family that
brings in as little as $3,500 a year is out of luck. In Minnesota, the
country's most generous state, that family can get HELP if their income is up
to $40,000.
