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.
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.