Considering you pay more per person in health care than the rest of the world and still deliver a much worse service perhaps you might consider you have something to learn from us?
My dear New Zealander friend,
I'm don't think you understand what American means. It is a mindset, based exclusively on Christian Liberty.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. - Galatians 5:1
We acknowledge this beginning when our Puritan forefathers gave up everything, risked all including their very lives. They willingly endured great hardships, crossing a great expanse of a sea in small creaky ships to scratch out mere survival in a harsh wilderness, just to worship Christ as freemen at Plymouth Rock. Their trust was solely in God that their endeavor would succeed & prosper.
We as a people have set aside a yearly national feast day to give thanks to God for His Divine Providence, to remember the sacrifices of those who initiated this for us, so we may freely proclaim the blessings of the greater sacrifice Christ made for us all.
This is further evidenced by our founding declarations;
In our first document uniting as a people - a nation, it is stated foremost & clear, "
Whereas we all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and aim, namely, to advance the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospel in purity with peace;" - Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies, May 19 1643
Avalon Project - The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; May 19, 1643
In our Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms July 6, 1775 it is stated after establishment of all the injustices of the deprivation of our Christian Liberty "
We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. -- The latter is our choice. -- We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. -- Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable. -- We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favour towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
Avalon Project - Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
Our Declaration of Independence, our Organic foundational law, declares to the world our rights come from God & no man can deny them - "
That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;. These Americans felt so strongly about these principles of Christian liberty they "
with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. This document, our law, also makes it a legal requirement to resist bondage - "
it is their duty"
At the time of our Independence the rallying cry of our Militias from our pastors to the people was "no King but Christ!"
Our founding national motto on our first great seal was "Obedience to God is resistance to Tyranny":
which is based on Romans 13 where governments "are not a terror to good works, but to the evil". Confirmed again with President Thomas Jefferson letter of agreement with the Danbury Baptist's concern for their Christian Liberty when they state "Our sentiments are uniformly on the side of religious liberty--that religion is at all times and places a matter between God and individuals--that no man ought to suffer in name, person, or effects on account of his religious opinions--that the legitimate power of civil government extends no further than to punish the man who works ill to his neighbors;"
Knowledgeable Americans realize that if we cede the state the power & control of our health, they gain possession of our bodies, which are the rightful possession of our King Christ who "purchased us for a price".
I hope this helps all who live in a dominion, not a free republic, subjects of governments of men, not sovereigns who recognize their government as the subject, not the superior,... understand, when you tell us to be like you, we hear " be entangled again with the yoke of bondage". We understand that if the cost of our liberty is more expensive, we happily pay the difference.
