Many scientists’ religious or other beliefs require them to make their best effort to find cures for diseases. Their beliefs aren’t any less important than Catholic beliefs, and the government has no business deciding that one set of beliefs should get privileges that are denied to another set of beliefs.
The only thing that subjects hospitals to federal requirements to treat Medicare patients, illegal immigrants, and all the rest, is if the hospital accepts government funds. There may be additional Massachusetts laws that carry things further, but I seriously doubt that a law requiring a hospital to provide care to Medicare patients, even if it doesn’t receive a penny of government funding, would survive a Constitutional challenge.
More balderdash. The gov't is supposed to be a wise steward of the monies it is entrusted. This necessarily involves making decisions about whose "beliefs" about science should be funded.
You have no right to gov't funding for your pet scientific theories.
The government is not forcing scientists to violate any beliefs or perform procedures that they have ethical disagreements with, where they would be with the Catholic hospitals.
The only thing that subjects hospitals to federal requirements to treat Medicare patients, illegal immigrants, and all the rest, is if the hospital accepts government funds. There may be additional Massachusetts laws that carry things further, but I seriously doubt that a law requiring a hospital to provide care to Medicare patients, even if it doesn’t receive a penny of government funding, would survive a Constitutional challenge.
Except "government funds" is very loosely defined. You seemed to be referring to medicare itself as government funding.