Posted on 10/23/2009 5:57:15 AM PDT by rhema
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Why isn’t there a completely separate Catholic medical system connected with Catholic hospitals that offers medical care (and affordable health insurance) according to a Christian moral philosophy? It would seem to be that that OUGHT to be a top priority for Catholic bishops given all of the pro-life rhetoric. Walk the walk.
If the courts rule against Belmont, the monks should announce the closing of the college. Put all of the faculty out of work. Then, in one year, open up a new college under a slightly different name with a “buy-your-own-health-insurance” policy and substantially higher teacher salaries to cover the cost. They’ll suffer financially for years, but eventually they’ll back on their feet, and they’ll be considered heroic defenders of the faith by Catholics everywhere.
We used to have a very independent hospital system, precisely because US medical policy (anti-natalist, pro-contraception, pro-abortion, etc.) has never been friendly to Catholic teachings. However, after Vatican II, many of these institutionals effectively became non-Catholic by being turned over to lay boards whose priority was not the protection of Catholic ethical teachings. Also, the religious orders that had staffed these hospitals collapsed, making them financially difficult to support.
I think the time is ripe for the revival of the Catholic (truly Catholic) hospital system, once again staffed and run by religious orders who have ethical and religious motivations for doing so. With something like that in place, Catholics could set up their own insurance system that would remove any supposed need for the government to impose its own, along with its anti-life policies.
The monks have said that if they lose, they will close the college.
Just like the colleges, universities, and high schools.
It's a SERIOUS problem.
They need to start with pre-med and medical school education and training.
And they need to have a training program for priests, would-be bishops, and
vowed religious for hospital administration.
They should start with St. Luke's Gospel and Evangelium Vitae to develop
an understanding of healing as a Christian vocation. Many hospitals and
medical care options in the U.S. are terrible. Been in a hospital lately?
Industrial corporate medicine that views patients as numbers and cash cows.
Forget Obamacare and rebuild Catholic medicine and hospitals.
It’s not clear why the EEOC reversed its original finding.
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It is clear to me. It took until May for someone in the Obama White House to “persuade” the local EEOC to reverse course.
And if the government imposes an insurance mandate on all employees, then the school should do what any intelligent employer would do: fire all employees, rehire them as "contractors," and let them insure themselves as self-employed individuals.
Can't do it. It is illegal to retaliate against someone for filing an EEOC complaint. They would have an unlawful discharge lawsuit in addition to the discrimination lawsuit.
Lster pingout.
My daughter is a junior at the University of Dallas, another authentically Catholic college. One of her professors is an alum of Belmont Abbey and he said the same, that they will close it rather than abide by this mandate.
You wrote:
“Why does it have to be that complicated?”
They’re being sued. Closing the school and reopening it may be the only legal way of ending their obligations to their teachers and making the lawsuits essentially moot.
I didn’t say I agreed with them - I was just pointing out that legally, they can’t be fired for filing the complaint.
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