The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies' own reference page on Amish mutual aid, describing how Amish communities forgo commercial insurance and instead cover large medical bills and losses through church-collected offerings, benefit auctions and direct community support.
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Tier 1: the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College is the leading academic research center on Amish life, and this page states in its own words how mutual aid and the avoidance of commercial insurance function in Amish communities. No single publication date is given on the reference page itself; the absence is noted rather than left silent. Citation
PublisherYoung Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College
URLhttps://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/cultural-practices/mutual-aid/
Source Typeacademic reference
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This source names Amish directly: "Pietist Studies' own reference page on Amish mutual aid, describing how Amish communities forgo commercial insurance and instead cover large medical bills and losses through church-collected..."
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