1. Did the Bishops not see this coming? How is that possible? If so, and they walked into a trap eyes wide open, what does that say? If not, then are they the ones to be leading? No wonder the Vatican keeps stressing we are heading into an era of the laity.
2. The fall back position, the position the Bishops desire to hold, is obamacare, without the mandates. Over 800 companies and unions have exemptions ot obamacare. Obamacare is unlikely to survive a supreme court challenge. True Christian health care organizations do in fact have exemptions form obamacare. The bishops want to defend a position no one else wants. But Obamacare continues the vast money flowing into Catholic coffers.
3. I listen to Catholic radio when I drive, so I get a good cross section of the talk. I have never heard a simple question addressed: since when can anyone take government money, but not be obliged to spend it the way the government says? OK, plenty of criminal types engage in welfare fraud, to be sure, and incalculable amount of money is wasted in programs, but those are people knowingly doing wrong. The bishops are arguing that they should be free to do their own thing. That just is not going to fly.
The bishops point out carefully that if they have to leave the field for moral reasons, about 400 of their 600 hospitals will be assumed by private and government entities, and about 200, which serve the truly needy will simply shut down. The people on the margins will die on the way to the long trip to the hospital.
Exactly. These bishops have no idea who they are up against. Killing off the marginal is how we save money in these tough economic times. It is what obamacare is all about.
Now, should the church withdraw, and start over, they will find it impossible to do so due to new regs and bonds and so on. The best the church might be able to do is invite the sisters of charity in to pick up the dying off the streets.
To have ever taken government money was a disaster.
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