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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (23290)	3/1/2012 9:57:43 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Maybe a church sees healthcare as being related to it's mission. I am well aware of two religious based organizations that provide adoption and relief care. Who should say that's not part of their mission in the world? I don't know why I bother to be so careful with my wording when the clarity is ignored or undifferentiated. I never said that healthcare, relief, and adoption are not appropriate parts of the role of religious institutions, only that big business isn't. The military does have hospitals (not just VA) and they're part of the military's mission. See, there's another example. It's hard to have a discussion with someone who is so disrespectful of or oblivious to the written word and the writer. I wrote "What if the military started buying up and operating civilian hospitals?" Of course the military has hospitals to serve its constituency and of course they're part of the military mission. But buying and operating hospitals in downtown Oshkosh, Albuquerque, Spokane, etc. in competition with the established hospital chains is clearly outside their mission.