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.
You sound awfully sure. Perhaps we'll find out soon, if CT goes ahead with this.
I'm not so sure accepting medicaid rates for treating the destitute is such a big profit center.
But if you say so.
Absolutely! The site surveys, land purchase, architectural design selection, zoning permits, construction bids, environmental impact statements, yadda, yadda, can be done within weeks! Construction will be completed with non-union labor in about a month! And we can staff the entire enteprise with competent physicians in about 48 hours!! We'll show those Catholics sods!