To be added it must be value above and beyond the baseline.
Providing a useful service, or alternatively making a profit but we are taking about non-profits here, is adding value. It doesn't matter if its no more value than someone else might have added, its still value-added.
An organization who's output was worth exactly what the inputs were worth would be one with no value added. If the outputs are worth less then it has subtracted value (which might be the case for a number of communist industries, or even GM in its worst years)
If there is no added value, then there is no reason to support them above anyone else, beyond defending them from attack, that is.
I don't see any particularly good reason to give them strong support, I'm just opposing the attacks.
I don't think it's that easy. It's not like building new hospitals is a ready option, certainly not unless there's a hospital shortage
Its not easy partially because of government intervention, to the extent that's the problem I'd go after the government intervention, not the church hospitals. Also I'm not really talking about building new hospitals, I'm talking about facilities/organizations that provide the services that the Catholic hospitals won't. Already I don't think most abortions take place in hospitals (a quick google search found .1% taking place in hospitals in Texas, nationally its probably higher but I'm sure its still very low), and only a tiny fraction of contraception (a tiny fraction of one percent) is delivered through hospitals. So you already have the competition to deliver the services in question, and if you didn't it wouldn't have to take long to get it. Even hospitals would be built if the consumer thought they were consistently poorly served by Catholic hospitals.
They do if they own all the providers, effectively a monopoly.
Even monopolies that provide poor service typically don't last, unless they are protected by the government. Standard oil for example rapidly decreased the price of oil derived products (largely kerosene at the time) in order to try to maintain its position. And despite that it was gradually losing its monopoly or semi-monopoly position before it was broken up.
In any case I don't see any real risk of a Catholic hospital monopoly. It just isn't going to happen. |
