I wonder how many of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate who drafted the recently revealed "health" care act have read the second chapter of the book of Acts in the New Testament (an integral part of the Christian Bible).  In fact, I wonder how many of them would call themselves Christians, followers of Jesus Christ.
     As Acts records it, in the very early days of the Christian church, "all those who believed were together and had all things in common; and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need" (Acts 2:44-45).
     Some commentators have called this a picture of "Christian communism."  I cannot find a clearer affirmation than this passage of the process that too many Christians, caught up in an allegiance to an economic system which the Bible does not fully support, abhore and dread:  "redistribution."  The proposed "health" care act aims to reduce taxes on the wealthy in order to increase the health care burdens of the poor.  It intends to enable the wealthy to reduce their financial commitment to the common good (a term enshrined in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution) while forcing the poor to do without access to health care.  All in the name of, again, an economic system which does not have full biblical support.
     What, I therefore ask, is "Christian" about this?  How does this fit into the spirit of Acts 2?  As who believes in and follows Jesus, I am embarrassed and horrified.  Where in this "health" care act is the Bible's call to care for the widow and orphan, the downtrodden and the poor?  Where in this bill is the Christian duty to do, as Paul puts in Galatians 6, "good" to all people?
     Where is the justice?