1 Corinthians 3:16-17 says, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” Later in 1 Corinthians, we are reminded that we are “not [our] own” and that we are “bought at a price” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). In the book of the Revelation, we are told that there is a judgment of all.
A managed care organization may regard its subscribers as a number, an account, or some other kind of cipher, but we know them as persons with faces, who have certain habits (like showing up drunk or two minutes before closing time, or trying to get one child's medicine on another child's Medicaid). To the insurer, they are simply “a risk” which can be managed by the averaging power of large numbers in a policy-holding group. No one in Insurance Command Central is answerable before God for the health of the insurance policyholders. Those of us who know the patient can remind the patients of their personal responsibility. When the occasion permits, which in these days is, I think, rather rare, we should remind our patients.
Excerpt from "Pharmacy and Medical Interventions"
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