Posted on 09/03/2014 3:24:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When she was eight weeks old, Ashlyn Whitney suffered a severe respiratory-tract infection that put her in an intensive care unit for 12 days.
"Because she was so young, she couldn't handle it," Ashlyn's mother, Nicole Whitney, recalled. "They had to give her oxygen."
The baby, now a year old, recovered from her illness, known as respiratory syncytial virus.The bill for her treatment at the West Boca Medical Center in Palm Beach County came to about $100,000 -- a sum that included almost $4,000 in fees for her birth and pre- and post-natal care -- but every dime of the tab was picked up by a medical bill-sharing organization set up for its Christian membership.
Such religious groups are exempt from the Affordable Care Act's mandate that most Americans obtain health insurance or pay a penalty. Although as many as 30 million Americans will remain without health insurance by 2016, despite the best efforts of the ACA's proponents, all but about seven million of them will be spared having to join the new system because of exemptions created by the act itself, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation.
The exempted religious organizations generally pool their members' money to pay the medical expenses of anyone in the group who gets sick, injured or becomes pregnant. Also exempted from the law are members of federally recognized religious sects who have religious objections to insurance or to such systems as Social Security or Medicare....
(Excerpt) Read more at insurancenewsnet.com ...
bttt
This example is organized Charity. Everyone should immediately build such private progams.
ROFL! More Americans are uninsured BECAUSE of the "ACA" than before it! "Despite the best efforts"... what a load of crap! What it should say is, Despite the best efforts of its supporters to PUNISH those who HAD good healthcare!
Two interesting things to notice:
1. This article, at least partly, come from insurancenews.net. I guess we can assume their agenda.
2. The name of the Christian medical bill-sharing organization isn’t mentioned. Sounds like insurancenews.net doesn’t want to give any of it’s customers/potential customers a clue that these types of organizations exist.
If I weren’t on Medicare and had to use nobamacare, I would certainly look into these organizations.
Let’s hear it for the nobamacare death spiral!
Here’s one called Medi-Share
https://medi-share.org/ms/lp/Medical-Bill-Sharing_11-1.aspx?leadsource=Internet-Email&custentity_urlreferralid=msc0187_townhall
I’m sure there are many others.
Did you bother to read the article instead of just the excerpt? The article talks of Medi-Share quite at length and not in a way that I would consider negative.
This sounds like the type of medical cost plan that the Amish have. As I recall, the Amish were exempted from Obamacare so it wouldn’t look so suspicious that Obama was exempting the Muslims from it.
No, I did not read the article and am embarrassed that I didn’t. Thank you for the heads up.
I wish. Downward spiral, yes. The ACA will never die.
"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." - Ronald Reagan
Like the mutual aid societies of 80 years ago, before they turned into investment companies.
there are only two others that have been around long enough to be exempt from aca. medishare is one of them and there are two more. i knw, i researched this in case something happens to our insurance.
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