According to President Obama’s deficit panel, “Federal health care spending represents our single largest fiscal challenge,” revealing the “awful truth … that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid now eat up all federal reserves.” However, during the October 2005 General Conference, we were taught that the gospel of Jesus Christ can provide “solutions to the ills of every living soul.” Believing that this is so, a structural (chiastic) analysis of the scriptures should demonstrate that it is not our nation’s fiscal health but our approach to physical health that is at the root of the present crisis.

Charles Francis