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To: siunevada

And well they might...


7 posted on 11/16/2005 2:08:29 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: yldstrk
And well they might...

I don't think they've got the support they would need to run a hospital. They can only manipulate government funds like this:

"We've helped 52 communities in 25 states face proposed religious hospital mergers," says Lois Uttley, the organization's director. "We defeated 19 of these proposals and forged compromises in 15 other cases that saved at least some threatened services. We have also unraveled eight existing mergers that were detrimental to reproductive health."

At Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, TX, MergerWatch helped health advocates (including Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region) create a separate "hospital within a hospital" on the fifth floor of the city-owned facility so patients could continue getting tubal ligations and emergency contraception. The rest of the hospital was managed by a Catholic health system under contract with the city.

17 posted on 11/16/2005 2:16:48 PM PST by siunevada
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