After searching Ellen White's manuscripts, periodicals, compilations, pamphlets, and miscellaneous writings, there is no direct, annotated statement in Ellen White's writings that explicitly condemns or warns against getting insured with worldly health funds.
Ellen White does discuss the principles of health reform, the operation of Adventist health institutions, and the importance of benevolence and faith in God for health and healing. She emphasizes that Adventist health institutions should not be run for profit or according to worldly business models, but as a branch of God's benevolent work. There are references to the need for funds to support health institutions and to provide for the worthy poor, but these are about church-based benevolence, not about insurance with secular or worldly health funds.
Notably, in one manuscript, Ellen White actually instructs that a house be insured: “I wish you would see that the house at Healdsburg is insured. Talk with Lucinda about it. I feel anxious in regard to it.” (Letter 17, 1880,
3MR 404.2). This suggests she was not categorically opposed to the concept of insurance.
**Summary:**
There is no clear, annotated statement in Ellen White’s writings that directly opposes or warns against obtaining health insurance from worldly or secular sources. Her counsel focuses on the spiritual and practical operation of Adventist health work, not on prohibiting insurance with outside organizations.
**References:**
- Ellen G. White, Letter 17, 1880, Manuscript Releases, vol. 3, p. 404.2
- Ellen G. White, various manuscripts, periodicals, compilations, and pamphlets (no direct statement found on this topic)