Is It Christian Charity to Tell People They Are Not Responsible for Their Own Medical Care?

In Jesus’ version of health care, Christians healed the sick, often at considerable personal sacrifice (see Luke 10:25-37). In the liberal version, Christians are absolved from healing the sick by enacting a government entitlement to health care, so that those who are sick can commandeer the resources of others for their care. They don’t have to pay doctors, borrow money, or buy health insurance for medical emergencies, but simply demand others pick up their bills.

Under existing policy, this means they can appear at hospital emergency rooms for treatment of minor ailments rather than use over-the-counter medications or pay out-of-pocket to see primary-care physicians during their regular hours, leaving those with genuine emergencies to spend long ordeals awaiting treatment.

Under liberal visions of “universal health care,” it means everyone is on Medicaid, no longer responsible for paying doctors, and no longer responsible for rejecting smoking, drugs, alcoholism, and unhealthy foods, or for taking on exercise, stringent diets, and vitamins to exercise stewardship over the “temples of the Holy Spirit” given them by God.

My question is this: Is the Christian charity Jesus requires in telling his disciples to heal the sick to enact a system of health-care irresponsibility?