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How politicians have reacted to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation news
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s shocking announcement that she is leaving Congress in January is still reverberating in Washington and beyond. The news, delivered Friday in a lengthy statement, appears to have caught some people off guard — including President Trump, whose feud with the Georgia Republican and the beef’s rippling effects played a role in…
Texas National Guard troops ordered to return home sometime this week
Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that Texas National Guard troops who were deployed to Illinois in October have been ordered to return back to the Lone Star State before Thanksgiving.
State Department denies claims about Russian origins of Trump’s Ukraine peace plan
State Department officials on Saturday aggressively pushed back on claims shared by some senators that President Trump’s 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine originated from Russia and is not the administration’s position. Earlier on Saturday, PBS NewsHour correspondent Nick Schifrin reported comments from Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Angus King (I-Maine) where the lawmakers claimed…
Take back your health care: A Christian model that puts families first
Presidio Healthcare recently made history by launching the nation’s first pro-life, Christian health insurance option in Texas at a time when many families are experiencing both historic rate increases and decreasing subsidies in the Obamacare marketplace.
While the heart of our mission focuses on serving families with an affordable option that protects both their values and their financial security, the vision for how we accomplish that aim rests on a lesser-known Christian principle that I believe provides a road map for reforming our broken health care system.
Health care policy should focus on expanding options for families while empowering them to own their own health insurance.
That principle is called “subsidiarity,” which represents a system of values that puts families first — in contrast to our current system that ignores the individualized needs of Americans.
The Christian principle of subsidiarity states “that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest, or least centralized competent authority rather than by a higher and more distant one, whenever possible.”
The latest debate over Obamacare subsidies serves as a great example of how our current system prioritizes the higher and more distant authority (i.e., Washington, D.C.) over the least centralized authority (i.e., American families).
The Obamacare market was designed to provide subsidies for low-income Americans, which by itself does not inherently violate the principle of subsidiarity. Rather, the problem lies with the insistence that this one federally controlled market should serve as a one-size-fits-all solution for everyone, including middle-income Americans who do not qualify for adequate subsidies.
The centralized answer that Democrats offer requires the Obamacare market to be propped up inefficiently with more subsidies. The subsidiarity answer would propose decentralizing the market by allowing alternative risk pools regulated at the state level to serve the middle-income Americans with products designed for their needs.
To summarize the principle for a broader application: Health care policy should focus on expanding options for families while empowering them to own their own health insurance.
In a decentralized system, Americans would become smarter consumers of health care as they bear the responsibility of owning and paying for their own health care expenses. The impact would reach beyond the economic. The key benefit to subsidiarity is its preservation of each of our relationships to God through our individual decision-making responsibility.
If tomorrow’s health care shoppers were individuals and families (instead of governments and employers), private insurance markets would be forced to serve the Christian and pro-life values of families, as opposed to our current system of serving government agendas and large employer needs. Presidio is building toward that tomorrow and starting now in Texas.
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Unfortunately, there is a major roadblock to this future.
Ironically, the employer-sponsored marketplace and the single-payor Medicare program — two markets that conservatives often support — in many ways violate the principle of subsidiarity to a greater degree than the much smaller Obamacare individual market.
We need to be consistent if we want to reform our health care system. Employers control the health insurance decisions for close to 150 million Americans, and all of us are forced to pay into a federally centralized Medicare program that exhibits some of the worst elements of socialism, such as dictating prices that distort our entire system.
The spiritual impact is evident through the contraceptive mandate and employer decisions that force millions of Christians to be insured on products that cover abortion, abortifacients, contraception, and other immoral services. Through Medicare, we have collectively forfeited our health care autonomy to Washington, D.C., when we turn 65, creating problematic scenarios that could prioritize our federal budget over dignified treatment for end-of-life care.
We need to do more than just talk about Obamacare — and we need take action now.
The good news is that health care policymakers need to look no farther than to what the private market is already doing.
Presidio is part of a decades-long movement in the health care industry to launch innovative alternative services that serve families directly. This includes affordable non-Obamacare alternatives, health-sharing ministry plans, and, more recently, “ICHRA” benefit platforms that are moving employers out of the business of purchasing health insurance and into a defined contribution model where employees purchase and own their own insurance.
The road map is there. Government and employers can assist families in purchasing health insurance rather than purchasing it for them. Private market innovations would follow.
At Presidio, we are building toward a future where subsidiarity replaces centrally controlled markets and the pro-life values of Christian Americans drive pro-life health insurance options that help fund life-affirming care. We do not take federal subsidies, and we do not want your employer forcing you to have Presidio coverage.
As in all authentic Christian movements, we rely on individual families to help build Presidio, and we look forward to serving your needs while we expand our vision of a health care system in America founded on the principle of subsidiarity.
Trump Admin Revokes Visa From South African Official Who Spearheaded ‘Genocide’ Case Against Israel
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked the visa of Naledi Pandor, the South African official who spearheaded a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, spoke by phone with former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh shortly after Oct. 7, 2023, and repeatedly offered support for terrorism, a senior State Department official exclusively confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon.
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What Do Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Mohamed Atta, and Adolf Hitler Have in Common? They’re Democratic Donors.
Jasmine Crockett, the sassy and toxically self-absorbed Democratic congresswoman from Texas, attempted to shame Republican lawmakers who have taken money from people named Jeffrey Epstein. None of the donations she mentioned came from the jet-setting pedophile Jeffrey Epstein; they were individuals who shared his name. Guess what, fam? We’re CLAPPING BACK at Crockett with our own 20-minute Google sesh. We used the internet to uncover some DEVASTATING truths about Democrats and the evil scumbags who finance their radical anti-American agenda. We didn’t have time to check for accuracy, but we’re pretty sure it’s legit. We seek to inform, not to mislead. That’s why we brought RECEIPTS, bitch.
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The Real Story Behind the Trump Administration’s Alleged Insult to Black Soldiers at a World War II Cemetery in the Netherlands
When a U.S. monuments commission removed a plaque invoking the history of segregation at a Netherlands cemetery for fallen American World War II soldiers, mainstream media outlets characterized the move as an attempt to minimize the contributions of black servicemen. CNN reported that a “display about Black soldiers in World War II” had been removed from the U.S. military cemetery, known as Margraten.
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Arab Civil Rights Group’s ‘Advocate of the Year’ Organizes Blood Libel Display at DC’s Union Station
An anti-Israel activist who received the “Advocate of the Year” award from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), a prominent Arab civil rights group, organized an anti-Semitic protest at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station on Thursday that Jewish groups are calling a shocking display of blood libel.
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