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Health care—whose responsibility?

From the September 1980 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Cain's challenge "Am I my brother's keeper?"Gen. 4:9; has special significance today as governments wrestle with the questions of where the responsibility for health care lies and how to provide it. Decision-makers are torn between what is regarded as the individual's right to quality care and the staggering economic effects of providing it on a nationwide basis.

But what appears to be a need for health-care resources, programs, and subsidies is actually a call for a deeper understanding of God's care of man. People turn to material sources for health care because they think of themselves and their needs as material. But material existence is like a fake cinema set. There is nothing true or substantial in it. In fact, it is only a false sense of things.

As one strips away this mental facade by denying its reality, he begins to see man's spiritual nature as the reflection of God. This reflection, or idea, is precise, clear, and inseparable from its source. All that man is or needs is in and of the divine Mind. And Mind's caring is infinite; there is no limit to the number of ideas God consciously cares for nor to the ways in which He expresses His care. One who perceives God's perfect care of His offspring can prove it now.

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