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To: GovernmentShrinker
No one is doubting that the state could attach conditions to any number of areas involved in operating a hospital.

The question is, is it wise?

Are abortion politics worth more to the politicians and the public than the existence of hospitals in certain communities?

If the Church pulls its support for its hospitals under state-mandated terms with which it can not in good conscience agree, who fills in the gap?

64 posted on 05/01/2007 9:49:32 AM PDT by SoothingDave (Eugene Gurkin was a janitor, cleaning toilets for The Man)
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To: SoothingDave

If a Catholic hospital closes or stops accepting patients whose bills are paid by government programs, other hospitals would quickly open to fill in the gap. There are plenty of huge companies operating hospitals all over the country. A more likely scenario is that the Catholic agency that owns the hospital would find that there isn’t enough financial support in the community to sustain a truly private hospital, and would sell the facility to a party which would operate it in accordance with the laws applicable to hospitals which receive government funding. Maybe then the Catholic Church would finally start to see the evil of socialism and stop enthusiastically promoting it. For now, they’ve made their bed and are whining about having to lie in it.


71 posted on 05/01/2007 10:19:13 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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