Tempe-based healthshare faces criticism for failing to pay [Video]

TEMPE, Ariz. — It seems like it would make sense: You pay into a faith-based non-profit organization that shares your religious views and values for health coverage. It’s an alternative to health insurance, you’re told. You make a payment every month to the non-profit, just like you would an insurance company. And they pay when you go for treatment.

Right?

But not for the hundred members of Tempe-based Solidarity HealthShare who have complained to the Better Business Bureau, and the dozen who told 12News’s I-Team that’s not how it worked at all. 

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“We knew it wasn’t traditional insurance, but we didn’t realize that they can just decide not to pay anything,” said one member, Courtney Rietman of Ohio. 

“They need to explain their exact process and how much …