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"For elective care we are free to elect doctors and hospitals of our choice. Is that difficult to understand?"

Try reading our entire exchange. I discussed an emergency situation. He responded by saying he wouldn't choose a musim doctor. I again mentioned an emergency. He said he'd choose a Catholic hospital. I again mentioned an emergency, which, by necessity, limits election. If I'm talking about an emergency and someone keeps bringing up choice as the most important factor in said situation, it hardly seems inappropriate for me to reiterate my point. If someone like yourself feels the need to get bent out of shape over my desire to keep the discussion on point, that's hardly my problem. Is that difficult to understand?

"It would probably help your understanding if you didn't work off the assumption that Catholics were ignoramuses. Nothing Herman said would lead a reasonable person to conclude that he would turn down emergency care from a competent source."

I am Catholic. As to your second statement, that all depends on his definition of competent source, doesn't it?

Try reading our entire exchange. I discussed an emergency situation. He responded by saying he wouldn't choose a musim doctor. I again mentioned an emergency. He said he'd choose a Catholic hospital. I again mentioned an emergency, which, by necessity, limits election.

I was thinking of my situation at home. I purposefully live in a Catholic neighborhood of a Catholic part of the country - Philadelphia. I live 5 minutes from two Catholic hospitals, which is where I would go in an emergency, and where my wife and I and our children go for ordinary care as well. The nearest hospital to my office is also a Catholic hospital, and it is where I would go if there was an emergency at work.

Much of the rest of my time away from home is spent elsewhere in Philadelphia and its immediate suburbs. I very much doubt I am ever more than a few minutes from a Catholic hospital around here because we have so many of them.

However, in a true emergency in that small amount of my life I am away from this region, if a Catholic hospital were not available, and medical care was urgent and could not wait, I would go somewhere else.

Nonetheless, I would prefer my money be spent on Catholic institutions and to support Catholic doctors in preference to those of other faiths. If you want to say that is bigoted, fine. I don't think it is anymore bigoted than my preference to only attend Catholic Churches for sunday worship.