Member details health care ministry blessings

A Samaritan Ministries member named Lori not only took time to write an e-mail to Rush Limbaugh explaining what a health care sharing ministry is, but she also posted an entry about HCSMs on her blog “Lifetime of Learning.”

In the excerpt below, she compares being a member of Samaritan with having health insurance:

A better understanding of what a blessing Samaritan is came with the birth of my son. Since bills for the birth, prenatal care, etc, were all sent directly to me instead of an insuance company, I was able to see just what the exact costs were. The grand total of all tests, prenatal care, delivery, anesthesia came to just under $10,000. WOW! That is a lot of money. You might be interested to know how much of that we were responsible for….a mere $300. Really. Now, a couple of years later I talked with someone who had a union job and great medical coverage who had to have a hernia repaired. He had 80/20 coverage (which is pretty standard) and when all insurance was paid out he owed $2000. They are still working on paying it off. At the point, I really began to see what a blessing Samaritan was. If that was my husband, we would have only paid $300 of the total bill. At that point, I became so grateful for what I had! I took some time to see and understand all of the benefits of HCSM, but now I am totally sold!

Thanks for the thumbs up, Lori!