One’s Christian faith has her believing in Obamacare (or a possible future single payer system) because God is on the side of the oppressed – PB/TK
The Christian woman who defended Obamacare says she actually wants a single-payer system – Jack Jenkins Senior Religion Reporter at ThinkProgress – Feb 15
The Tennessee woman who made national headlines last week for offering a Christian defense of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate says she isn’t satisfied with the current health care law. Instead, she says her faith compels her to support something far more progressive and, to her, far more Christian: a single-payer health care system.
Jessika Bohon made waves on Friday when thousands of people shared a video of her asking Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) a question about the ACA, also called Obamacare. In the video, Bohon praised the law’s provision requiring people to purchase health insurance or face a fine—also called the “individual mandate”—noting that adding more healthy people to the insurance pool brings down costs for sick people.
Bohon, who works as a French teacher in Tennessee, rooted her reasoning in the Christian faith.
“The ACA mandate requires everyone to have insurance because the healthy people pull up the sick people, right?” she said. “As a Christian, my whole philosophy in life is to pull up the unfortunate.”
But in a new op-ed published on Wednesday in the Washington Post, Bohon explained that while she stands by the spirit of her earlier statements, she regrets not taking the moment to advocate for another health care system: single-payer.
Continue to thinkprogress.org article: https://thinkprogress.org/the-christian-woman-who-defended-obamacare-says-she-actually-wants-a-single-payer-system-40074bd27854#.9uj62v4ek
