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IMPERIAL POWER Empires—Roman and American—impact the physical and mental well-being of their inhabitants • by WARREN CARTER ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE IS CONTROVERSIAL. Many people in the United States enjoy access to excellent health care, but high premiums and pre-existing conditions have eliminated coverage for others. Some politicians (privileged with extensive health-care coverage) have even made determined efforts to deny BIBLE STUDY health-care access to nearly 30 million people. Their actions are like the response of elite allies and agents of Roman power to Jesus in Matthew’s gospel, when Jesus healed people of various afflictions. What’s true today under American empire was also true under the Roman Empire: Acts of healing have political as well as spiritual ramifications. The attention that Matthew’s gospel gives to Jesus’ healings might point us to some best practices for health care today. 32 sojourners FEBRUARY <strong>2018</strong> sojo.net
is bad for your health People wait to enter the Remote Area Medical mobile clinic in Wise, Va. The annual event provides free medical care to thousands of uninsured and underinsured people in Appalachia. Photo by Pete Marovich/American Reportage FEBRUARY <strong>2018</strong> sojourners 33
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