For Years Catholic Business Journal has—and continues to—Endorse Samaritan Ministries: Healthcare Sharing: Here’s One More Reason Why

For Years Catholic Business Journal has—and continues to—Endorse Samaritan Ministries: Healthcare Sharing: Here’s One More Reason Why

admin September 16, 2020 0 Comments

Samaritan Ministries helps its members save thousands in health care costs by using Fair-Price Providers. It can help cut your health costs too.  Here’s how… In one example—just one example out of many—a Samaritan Ministries member who formerly assumed healthcare provider charges were “always fair and reasonable,” used Samaritan Ministries recommendations and saved $20,000 by…

The Bioethicist Pandemic

The Bioethicist Pandemic

admin June 9, 2020 0 Comments

The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates the dangerous temptation to remove control over policy from democratic deliberation in favor of a technocracy, i.e., rule by “experts.” In health care, such a system would be particularly perilous since the experts placed in charge of policy would be “bioethicists”…

Can simple breathing techniques improve your health?

Can simple breathing techniques improve your health?

admin February 25, 2020 0 Comments

Could simple breathing techniques that anyone can quickly learn be the key to overcoming major medical conditions and optimizing health? In recent years many books have made a compelling case for this idea. One popular example is Patrick McKeown’s The Oxygen Advantage: Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques to Help You, which he also summarizes in…

DPC Q&A: Dr. Dana Mays wants to keep patients well, avoid ‘medical’ care

DPC Q&A: Dr. Dana Mays wants to keep patients well, avoid ‘medical’ care

admin September 30, 2019 0 Comments

Board-certified family practice physician Dr. Dana Mays opened the first direct primary care/house call practice, YaphaMD, in the Alexandria-Pineville area of central Louisiana on July 1, 2014. She opened it to provide an alternative to “being herded like cattle through a typical office setting.” Her practice is named YaphaMD, with “yapha” being the Hebrew word meaning…

She Fights Parkinson’s in the Boxing Ring

She Fights Parkinson’s in the Boxing Ring

admin September 25, 2019 0 Comments

Jayna Mullen is fighting her Parkinson’s disease in the boxing ring. She participates in Rock Steady Boxing, an innovative program that is gaining popularity among patients and doctors alike and now has more than 800 affiliate locations nationwide. Three times a week, Jayna and others with Parkinson’s gather for one-hour classes in Lafayette, Indiana, and…

Why primary care costs a trillion dollars more than it should

Why primary care costs a trillion dollars more than it should

admin August 27, 2019 0 Comments

A cartoon featured in The Greeneville Sun on Father’s Day weekend was both sad and sobering. A young girl was shown graciously offering Uncle Sam a gift exclaiming, “Happy Father’s Day! I got you something,” only to be handed a gigantic ball and chain from Uncle Sam complete with leg iron stating, “$21 TRILLION NATIONAL…

The Affordable Care Act’s unhappy anniversary

The Affordable Care Act’s unhappy anniversary

admin May 3, 2019 0 Comments

March 23 marked nine years since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (popularly known as Obamacare) became law. Obamacare’s proponents promised that the law would reduce costs, expand access, and allow us to keep our doctors if we liked our doctors. The reality has been quite different. Since Obamacare was enacted, individual health insurance…

Award-winning Medical Doctor Leaves Hospital over Trans-gender Surgeries, Opens DPC Practice

Award-winning Medical Doctor Leaves Hospital over Trans-gender Surgeries, Opens DPC Practice

admin March 5, 2019 0 Comments

Biblical teaching and medical ethics led Dr. Rod Story to leave a hospital that was asking him to violate both. Since resigning from Pullman Regional Hospital in Washington state at the end of 2017 rather than participate in “transgender” surgeries, Dr. Story has not only started his own successful direct primary care practice, but he…

How is a Christian Doctor Different?

How is a Christian Doctor Different?

admin March 5, 2019 0 Comments

Will you get different care by going to a doctor who is a professed Christian? How should a believer practice medicine? I’ve worked in the medical community for 15 years. My colleagues are good doctors, by and large. Medicine has a lot of standard procedures—how you treat blood pressure, diabetes or chronic illnesses—and, for the…

The de-sciencing of American medicine and what it means for you

The de-sciencing of American medicine and what it means for you

admin February 19, 2019 0 Comments

With all the talk about “evidence-based medicine,” you might think that doctors were becoming much more focused on rigorous science. But like the names attached to bills in Congress—such as the Affordable Care Act, which outlaws affordable insurance—the language used in the movement to fundamentally transform America and American medicine usually means the opposite of…

‘Never going back to insurance,’ say many health care sharing ministries members

‘Never going back to insurance,’ say many health care sharing ministries members

admin February 5, 2019 0 Comments

In light of recent increased legislative decrees promoting abortion without restraint of any kind, such as Governor Cuomo’s new New York State law,  embattled Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s cry for no-restrictions abortion even after a child is born, and the increasing intensity of the Culture of Death throughout our health institutions and laws, and echoed…

Free Market Principles vs. Healthcare System — Is there a truly free market solution?

Free Market Principles vs. Healthcare System — Is there a truly free market solution?

admin January 17, 2019 0 Comments

Free-market principles are used in many aspects of U.S. business, with the concepts of fair competition and no monopolies paramount, but they aren’t followed when it comes to American health care. In a recent blog post, Samaritan Ministries, a healthcare sharing nonprofit, asked the question: “Do We Have a Free Medical System?” The article, penned…

Because You Asked…

Because You Asked…

CBJ Editors September 14, 2018 0 Comments

Over the past year we’ve had an increase in user inquiries about Samaritan Ministries, a healthcare-sharing ministry that’s been around more than 20 years and that also is one of our featured sponsors.  About 8 years ago the Catholic Business Journal founder and executive editor became frustrated with her outrageous individual health insurance fee of,…

Doctor prohibited from offering low-cost MRIs sues state

Doctor prohibited from offering low-cost MRIs sues state

admin September 10, 2018 0 Comments

Would you rather pay $2,000 or $500?   As reported by the Samaritan Ministries health-sharing group and the Reason Foundation, a serious question needs to be addressed: Should a licensed doctor have to ask the government and industry competitors for permission before purchasing potentially life-saving medical equipment? That’s the question at issue in a new lawsuit…

CATHOLIC BUSINESS PROFILE: Dr. Michael Kloess—Director, Our Lady of Hope Clinic

CATHOLIC BUSINESS PROFILE: Dr. Michael Kloess—Director, Our Lady of Hope Clinic

CBJ Editors February 7, 2018

Dr. Michael Kloess (pictured left), a board-certified family physician, runs a direct primary care clinic in Madison, Wisconsin, that uniquely echoes the Gospel message and Catholic, pro-life teaching regarding medicine and health issues. For him, it is a business and a vocation, and for this reason serving the under-served is an integral part of Dr.…