There's enough in the Bible that you can pick and choose text to support pretty much any course of action.
Perhaps, however there some clear things which are repeated quite a bit, for example care for others. Especially those less fortunate then yourself.
Actually the concept of earning your redemption is alien to the teaching of the New Testament, and the main reason it's in the Old Testament is to highlight that it's impossible to achieve (and often those who God chose in the Old Testament often didn't do all that much to earn themselves being chosen). Therefore, arguably, the concept of "I've paid for my healthcare so those who aren't able to shouldn't get healthcare" isn't something which Christians should be thinking.
That's before you consider the law in the Old Testament set up rules like gleaning, where during the harvest the workers were to go through the field once and only once and anything left behind was allowed to be collected by those who needed it (Widows, Orphans and those from other countries).
Likewise the law of Jubilee, where land always had to return to the family of those who were allocated it as well as all debts cancelled, so you couldn't end up with one family with all the land and people with none.
Even some of the more bizarre laws, like a women marrying her husband's brother, had elements of protection in it. As the ideal was that the women would ultimately end up with a son and so he could care for her, or at the very least a son-in-law to care for her. (Obviously there's always the risk that the ideal isn't achieved, but it's worth remembering that much in the bible is written, initially, to a culture closer to the Taliban than it is to anything we'd experience in the west - and when viewed from that perspective is actually very liberal, even though some things appear very at odds to a Western viewpoint).
That's before you consider the rules about fair measures (fraud), forcing yourself on women and the like.
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