Emphasis on some:
This spring in Massachusetts, a Catholic hospital system announced a joint venture with a secular company to provide insurance to the poor under the state’s universal health-care program.
The venture fulfilled one pillar of Catholic social teaching—caring for the needy.
But it violated another principle, because the state-run health plan for low- and moderate-income adults subsidizes abortion. The Catholic hospital didn’t perform abortions but was required to refer patients to clinics that would, an act the church considers immoral.
August 5th, 2009 | 1:59 pm
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August 5th, 2009 | 2:45 pm
I think there’s more than abortion that Catholics will object to in Obamacare–though I have no evidence that any in Catholic leadership understand what’s about to hit us.
But inevitably, socialized medicine will put the government in the position of encouraging, probably with both law and subsidy, euthanasia, suicide, assisted suicide, and indirect killing via withholding of normal care for many. In about 10 years, as a senior citizen, it will be my civic duty to do myself in somehow.
The Church seems oblivious to this next “life issue,” and, in fact, by lobbying for more and more government involvement in health care under the guise of “justice,” is in fact lobbying to bring about this development.
August 5th, 2009 | 2:45 pm
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August 5th, 2009 | 4:06 pm
Joe DeVet,
Why hasn’t Medicare led to all of these horrible things?
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