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Dr. Joe Jarvis
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Dr. Joe Jarvis is a public health MD, and author of "The Purple World” and “For the Hurt of My People: Original Conservatism and Better, Simpler Health Care”
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The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. Psalms 147:2-3
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“38 of Mississippi’s rural hospitals are in danger of collapsing because Governor Reeves refuses to allow the state to accept an expansion of Medicaid. The hospitals treat all patients who need care, without Medicaid the hospitals (go broke).
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Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Psalms 82:3
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“Avoidable mortality refers to deaths that are preventable and treatable. Since 2015, avoidable deaths have been on the rise in the U.S., which had the highest rate in 2020 of all the countries in our analysis.”
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And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. Psalms 119:45
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“More than 200 million Americans are covered by private health insurance. .insurers reject about 1 in 7 claims for treatment. Many people simply give up. .Americans file formal appeals on only 0.1% of claims denied by insurers.”
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Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him, And led him away to Annas. John 18:11-13
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“Health care spending, both per person and as a share of GDP, continues to be far higher in the United States than in other high-income countries. Yet the U.S. is the only country that doesn’t have universal health coverage.”
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Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. Mark 9:50
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“Diabetes patients suffer when their employers move them into high-deductible health plans, increasing the odds that they will need to be rushed to emergency departments for severe hyperglycemia by 25%.”
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And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Isaiah 1:8
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“Over ten years, publicly funded guaranteed health care could save $500 billion and more than 40,000 lives. .(What) could (you) receive if we enact . .a program to cover all medically necessary care with no premiums, co-payments, or deductibles.”
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Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Isaiah 40:12
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“AbbVie increased Humira’s price about 30 times, most recently by 8 percent this month. Since the end of 2016, the drug’s list price has gone up 60 percent to over $80,000 a year.”
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O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is. Psalms 63:1
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“A first in Gallup’s two-decade trend, less than half of Americans are complimentary about the quality of U.S. healthcare. .The majority now rate healthcare quality as subpar, 31% saying it is “only fair” and 21% -- a new high -- calling it “poor.”
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Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Isaiah 51:1
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“At the end of NYSE trading on March 23, 2010, when President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, Elevance’s share price stood at $53.18. .(Today) it would cost you $495.70 to buy a share of Elevance’s stock.”
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In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord. Ezekiel 29:21
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“Penny, who was diagnosed at 3 weeks old with cystic fibrosis, is able to go to school and she is able to do all the things that a 9-year-old girl should be able to do, and that is because of a $311,000-a-year drug.”
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But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. Psalms 52:8
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“In a 2002 peer-reviewed study, researchers found that each additional patient assigned to a hospital nurse increased the likelihood of premature death by 7%. And yet understaffing is the rule, not the exception.”
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For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. Isaiah 51:3
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“Roughly 38 percent of Americans surveyed said they or a family member postponed medical treatment last year due to cost. That’s the highest rate by five percentage points since Gallup began tracking self-reported delays in medical care in 2001.”
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And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
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“With an average of 96 excess deaths per 100,000 people, the U.S. leads all developed nations in deaths that can be prevented by timely intervention, compared to just 83 in the U.K. and 65 in France.”
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Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Psalms 51:12
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“By allowing publicly funded research to be turned into a privately held financial asset; by allowing venture capitalists and Wall Street to drive up the price of that asset; the U.S. health care system has created the ultimate unvirtuous circle.”
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Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Psalms 24:7
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“Hospitals trying to shed unprofitable business lines are increasingly scaling back or halting maternity services, adding new stresses to the reproductive care landscape.”
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Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. .As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. Psalms 133:1, 3
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“Hospitals that get most of their revenue from people who can still afford private insurance are increasingly concentrated in rich suburbs, while hospitals in rural areas and poor neighborhoods of our cities are closing.”
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For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, there will I require your offerings, the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. Ezekiel 20:40
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