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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (23266)2/28/2012 2:14:58 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Re the "backlash" though, it's good you admit there's an anti-religious motive involved in all this.

I admit no such thing. You're inferring again. There's nothing anti-religious about expecting the Church to do churchy things and not compete in the agriculture or software or oil exploration or health care businesses? Folks talk a lot about separation of church and state. Whooda thunk that we'd have to face the issue of the separation of church and business? The Church has no business competing with Monsanto or Charles Schwab. At best, it's unseemly. There's nothing anti-religious about that. It's more about maintaining the integrity of institutional constructs.

But that wouldn't be "theft" strictly speaking, I guess.

It's only theft if power or deception is used to keep the disinclined owner from getting fair value. It may be a shame. It may be a lot of other disreputable things. But it ain't theft.

As for those bossy Catholics barging into the hospital arena, isn't it the advent of Obamacare thats driving hospital consolidation?

Yes, it is, but the Church has been buying hospitals since long before Obamacare came along. Not necessarily consolidating them. Purchase and consolidation are different constructs.

I guess it's good if the government forces churches out of health care so you don't have to run the risk of being taken to one in an emergency.

I don't try to conceal my preferences. If something turns out to favor my preferences, I'm pleased. That doesn't mean that I advocate an initiative designed to force that outcome. If rap music were to go away, I'd be pleased. But I wouldn't advocate an initiative to stamp it out.
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