The USCCB made it clear that they fully supported 0bamacare from the beginning, the only reservation concerned abortion and contraception. How they believed the government could assume a dictatorial control of insurance programs so complete that literally millions of people would lose their coverage, and that yet somehow the Left would fail to advance its death culture is a complete mystery.
Indeed. The Progressive movement is by its very nature both utilitarian and totalitarian. It's a package. The bishops are mistaken if they believe they can be cafeteria progressives.