Another Sign that America Needs Revival

"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised." Isaiah 10:1-4

Today, 17 year old Nataline Sarkisyan is dead. She was scheduled to receive a liver transplant. This was approved by her insurance company, Cigna. However, she got a lung infection and Cigna suddenly decided that it was "too experimental." The doctors were willing to perform the surgery and urged the insurance company to approve it. They did not, however, perform the surgery without payment. As a result, time ran out and Sarkisyan died.

The way I see it, you have an insurance company ignoring the doctors and allowing a teenager to die rather than pay for life saving surgery. On the other hand, you have doctors waiting on the promise of payment, thus allowing a teenager to die. This situation has Isaiah chapter ten written all over it. Whatever your views on the health care system in America, we should all agree that this story is the definition of injustice. And if I'm reading my Bible correctly, America cannot expect to continue receiving God's blessings while turning its back upon what Jesus called "the least of these." The God who judged Israel for allowing this same kind of activity will not hesitate to judge us. Political solutions will not solve it. We need revival.