Don’t take the federal funds.
As long as you do they call the tunes. Schools do the same thing.
Kick out the feds and you can do what you want.
that means turning away MEDICARE and MEDICAID patients from facilities that may be the only ones located to serve those populations
It means teaching hospitals like Georgetown get no govt funded research grants, accept no patients using govt-paid insurance, no govt grants to buy special equipment or hire specialized faculty and staff, no govt grants or aid to reduce the costs to patients of medications etc
It is not so easy as you say to deny someone what the feds are out to make a “civil right” (abortion as a “civil right”) Call abortion a “civil right” and the guilty liberals wring their hands over denying it to anyone
How are Catholic hospitals going to avoid taking federal funds? They would have to refuse anyone on Medicaid and Medicare, and this would contradict the mission of Catholic hospitals, known for their outstanding service to the poor, the vulnerable, and otherwise underprivileged. If they accept only patients on private insurance—those who are gainfully employed—then they are not practicing what they preach.
We are living in strange times.
Very hard to do with Medicare and Medicaid entrenched as major players in health care finance. Absolutely impossible if we get socialized medicine ("single payer" mandatory govt. health insurance) which is what the Left really wants (and will push for under the Obama admin.).