It has nothing to do with government funding.
When I say funding, I include students taking government-backed student loans. About the only colleges left that have true freedom are Hillsdale and Grove City, because they are not tied to any government money in any way.
Americans have allowed government to have a hand in everything, and this is the result. I’m not blaming the Catholic institutions in particular; we are all at fault. When we let government take a major role in education, health care, insurance, and business, we lost our freedom. Government control of every aspect of our lives was only a matter of time.
THANK YOU for pointing this out. I worked in Catholic health care for most of my career, and I wonder what those who take the "government funding" swipe would have preferred that we do. Should we have discriminated against Medicare and Medicaid patients and turned them away? Should we have refused to care for patients we knew couldn't afford care but for whom we could recoup a bit of the cost from the state and the feds? Or were we supposed to care for them without accessing government funding, thereby exhausting our resources and exacerbating the local bed shortage by caring for fewer patients overall?
The issue for me isn't who Catholic providers have accepted funding from as much as it is the government mandates that make providing care so costly in the first place. IMHO Catholic providers should be able to contract for services just as secular providers do, and if our country weren't in the process of becoming a secular atheocracy, it wouldn't really be an issue.
FYI, for those who don't wish to be part of an insurance plan that forces us to subsidize what we consider immoral, Solidarity Health Share is supposed to be up and running by the end of the year. Here's an EWTNnews article about it.