California Girl
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I don't believe a thing you post without support. Link? Nothing personal.Yep. From what I understand, they get over 60% of their funding from tax dollars.So Catholics are major recipients of tax dollars?
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What I find fascinating is the obsession with how much of their funding comes from 'tax dollars'.... not a question about where the rest of their funding comes from... or how much more it would cost the tax payer on top of what we're already providing. The distinct lack of logic - or even basic math - is slightly worrisome.
More from the article:
Imagine the impact if these hospitals shut down, discounting the other 400-plus health centers and 1,500 specialized homes that the Catholic Church operates as part of its mission that would also disappear. Thanks to the economic models of these hospitals, no one will rush to buy them. One in six patients in the current system would have to vie for service in the remaining system, which would have to absorb almost $100 billion in costs each year to treat them. Over 120,000 beds would disappear from an already-stressed system.
The poor and working class families that get assistance from Catholic benefactors would end up having to pay more for their care than they do under the current system. Rural patients would have to travel farther for medical care, and services like social work and breast-cancer screenings would fall to the less-efficient government-run institutions. That would not only impact the poor and working class patients, but would create much longer wait times for everyone else in the system. Finally, over a half-million people employed by Catholic hospitals now would lose their jobs almost overnight, which would have a big impact on the economy as well as on health care.
And that's just our hospitals.... we haven't even consider the impact on the education system.... but that's in the article too.