Seeking Divine Intervention

Lightkeeper · #1 (**permalink**) 26th October 2005, 11:45 PM

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October 25, 2005

by Sandra G. Boodman
The Washington Post

When his wife spent a week in Georgetown University Hospital's intensive care unit last year recovering from life-saving brain surgery, Joe Huff never worried about who would pay her $120,000 hospital bill, even though his family has no health insurance.

Huff, a 52-year-old Laytonsville real estate agent, said he trusted that a bill-sharing cooperative of evangelical Christians he joined 10 years ago -- and to which he faithfully mailed a $346 monthly check -- would come through, just as it had when the youngest of the couple's seven children was hospitalized with spinal meningitis two years ago.

After a $250 deductible, Huff said, Christian Care Medi-Share paid for everything. "We also got about 20 cards and letters from people saying they were praying for us," he added.

Huff and his family are among the 60,000 members of Medi-Share, the largest of a little-known group of nonprofit organizations that market themselves as faith-based alternatives to health insurance. The half-dozen plans, which claim a total membership of more than 120,000 Americans, are especially popular in the South.

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=5578

Any comments?

Rev. Rex · #2 (**permalink**) 27th October 2005, 06:33 PM

I've seen a number of alternatives to insurance lately, and they seem to be pretty good ideas. I'm not sure that there is much of a savings in this case, though. $346 paid over a 10 year period is 41,520. In comparison, my medical insurance, at the rate it is right now, would cost $9,000 over 10 years.

Arkansaslegs · #3 (**permalink**) 29th October 2005, 03:48 AM

It sounds like a great thing... if you have the faith (and the legal mumbojumbo to back it up!)

I've never heard of these groups. I'm glad they're working for them though!

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