HIDDEN RISKS. DIRE CONSEQUENCES

A group effort to make responsibility affordable for all

“Perhaps the deepest poverty of all is to have nothing of value to offer in exchange”-Robert Lupton

SOMETHING IS NOT BETTER THAN NOTHING- STEVE CORBETT

Picture from How Matters: Aid, Africa, Corruption, and Colonialism: An Honest Conversation http://www.how-matters.org/2011/04/22/aid-africa-corruption-colonialism/

HUMAN NEED IS REAL

1 “Get Involved” – http://wishforwater.com/

2. From a personal ‘missions trip’ Fall 2009-Spring 2010.

3 % of GDP as Development Aid

http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/stats-on-human-rights/statistics-on-poverty/statistics-on-international-development-aid/

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Helping vs hurting. Spend money to give it- donate to missions trippers but not to panhandlers? Can we teach people sustainability while relying on support can we… can I really change anything… why try.

http://www.thebridgegranada.org/ministries/the-jicaro-project

Where do I fit?

What is my role? I can’t save every star- fish on the seafront but maybe I can throw back this one.

Image from

freedigitalphotos.net; used with permission

“It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35)

“Receiving, I am beginning to realize, is a

humbling thing. It implies neediness.

It categorizes one as being ‘worse

off’ than the giver. Perhaps it is for

this reason that we tend to reserve for

ourselves the ‘more blessed’

position” - Robert Lupton.

PERPLEXED THOUGHTS TO VAGUE IDEA TO ACTION

“When my motivation is to change people, I inadvertently communicate: Something is wrong with you, but (quite subtly) I am okay. If our relationship is defined as healer/ patient, then I must remain well and they must remain sick in order for our interaction to continue […]”

Perplexed thoughts

Vague idea

Action (speaking with you)

“[…] Since one does not go to the doctor when he is well, curing, then , cannot long serve as the basis for any relationship that is life-enhancing for both participants” - Lupton

Drawing by Nathan Schreiber for Jonathan Gruber’s (comic)book

Health Care Reform

“Ever wonder why your insurance premiums keep going up? The uninsured receive services that they often can’t pay for. The hospital or its insurer absorbs the cost. It can’t get reimbursed so that cost gets

passed on to those who can and will pay.

There are $50 billion a year in uncompensated care costs passed on to the insured in this country in the form of higher premiums.

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Uninsured Hospitals

Hospitals Insured Patients

Insured Patients Insurers

Insurers Customers

Cost Sequence:

THERE IS A MUTUAL NEEDThe wealthy cannot afford to ban the poor from group insurance markets

Gruber, Schreiberhttp://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/gallery/health_care_graphic_novel?pg=8

EVERY INDIVIDUAL SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO A GROUP

That has access to realistic group insurance rates and coverage without substantial and costly gaps.

Gruber, Schreiberhttp://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/gallery/health_care_graphic_novel

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SCOMIASummit County Ohio Medical Insurance AllianceSomeone’s Counting On Me Indefinitely

“PERHAPS IT IS OUR TIME AND PLACE IN HISTORY TO RE-IMPLEMENT THE WISDOM OF THE AGES AND TO FASHION CONTEMPORARY MODELS OF THOUGHTFUL COMPASSION”

Presentation created by Valerie Long for City Vision College course

331; Fall 2 2012