2 January 2020 - Some state regulators are scrutinising nonprofit Christian cost-sharing ministries that enrol Americans struggling to pay for medical care, but aren’t legally bound to cover their members’ claims.

Eight-year-old Blake Collie was at the swimming pool when he got a frightening headache. His parents rushed him to the emergency room only to learn he had a brain aneurysm. Blake spent nearly two months in the hospital.

His family did not have traditional health insurance. “We could not afford it,” said his father, Mark Collie, a freelance photographer in Washington, N.C.

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