That doesn't make anyone a trouble maker, but it does make them business and medical professionals like any other business and medical professionals in a big business. That is a far cry from a nun ministering to the lowly sick.
I see no problem with increasing medical professionalism or with health care being a bigger part of the economy.
Why does anyone have to prove to you X or Y is better than someone else for you to approve of them doing something?
All other things being equal, it doesn't. But I have identified a problem with the Church running medical empires, a negative.
I don't see that you've identified a negative except that you perceive it as a negative. As for the 'mixing functionality' complaint, government agencies or departments or insurance companies providing health care be a functionality mixing as well.
As a matter of both intellectual integrity and fairness, I was looking for something to put on the positive side of the ledger to weigh against the negative. I was unable to do so and apparently so are you.
No one needs to provide a 'value added' positive to justify something that seems to be working okay. Setting up some mythical fence and suggesting someone needs to jump over it isn't fairness.
If Catholic hospitals are closed or sold and we get government running them
Why would you assume that the hospitals would be sold to the government? That seems way beyond unlikely to me, unless some were used as veterans' hospitals.
I don't know who will buy them if they are sold, but a coerced sale isn't fair or wise.
will the federal government add value, be better at customer service, management, etc than Catholics were?
The new owners, presumably some professional hospital administration outfit, would not need to add value. They are the baseline. The only reason Church ownership needs to add value is to compensate for the negative they introduce in the role department.
There isn't any negative except for one you imagine.
You admit animosity is a factor but don't like that I notice it.
Because you see it encompassing everything. I can compartmentalize it, recognize it as one factor, and analyze other factors independent of it.
It's really hard for people to do this fairly. |
