Posted on 03/15/2010 7:47:45 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard
Key Talking Points
* While health-care financing and delivery systems in the United States suffer from significant flaws impacting cost and access which have accumulated over the years, the entire system is not broken. Reform legislation should focus on addressing specific issues; not on replacing or overhauling the entire health-care system at one time.
* While attention is rightly paid to the socio-economic aspects of the crisis in health care and delivery, it is essential to acknowledge and respect the fundamental ethical principles at stake. Above all, it is necessary at this time to ensure that any national health-care reform legislation provides respect for human life (e.g., by not funding or mandating abortion as a “health-care benefit”) and respect for the conscience rights of health-care professionals (e.g., providing nothing less than the current protections in federal and state law—and preferably more).
* Health-care reform legislation must respect the integrity of the physician-patient relationship. This means that people should be free to choose physicians and health insurance coverage which accord with their values and needs. This also means that physicians must not be prevented—by the force of government regulations—from respecting their patients’ privacy or from offering the attention and treatments patients require based on the physician’s professional judgment.
* Other: Any health care reform legislation must be carefully monitored to ensure that interest groups do not take the opportunity afforded by comprehensive legislation to insert provisions that harm the dignity of individuals or the family or that inappropriately serve the agenda of a particular group or ideology.
Nothing to disagree with there but what’s this I’ve heard about Catholic Hospitals coming out in favor of obamacare and publicly endorsing the plan on the table? Have you heard anything?
Thanks...I just found a thread on this. Something’s fishy...I’ve never heard of this group before and I find it hard to believe that any authenticly Catholic organization would be able to support this legislation.
The so-called "Catholic Health Association" is apostate, and supporting 0bama.
The Catholic Medical Association is Catholic, and opposing Zero and his cronies.
The leftist press is promoting the former, and ignoring the latter.
Look at her attire, her face. You can always tell a modern left nun who has left the true Church.
Our Church is full of people like her, we are in a crisis.
For later.
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