What would Jesus do you ask? Apparently we are all about to find out. Religious owned Hospitals will Minister to the most important Health needs of women, poor, elderly and the dying...
It's The Family, the Family, the Family! (Not your family, that weird political, religious Family...)
Biblical Medicine? How Religious Corporations Are Gobbling Up Healthcare Facilities
But the Vatican hasn’t survived for 1,500 years by being stupid. And as my devout family members like to say, “Where God closes a door, he opens a window.” The window the bishops found open in Washington takes the form of independent hospitals with financial problems.
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In the words of the U.S. Conference of Bishops, Catholic hospitals and healthcare corporations are “healthcare ministries” and “opportunities:”
New partnerships can be viewed as opportunities for Catholic healthcare institutions and services to witness to their religious and ethical commitments and so influence the healing profession. . . .For example, new partnerships can help to implement the Church’s social teaching.
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Under these agreements, the patient-doctor relationship becomes a patient-doctor-church relationship: “The Church’s moral teaching on healthcare nurtures a truly interpersonal professional-patient relationship. This professional-patient relationship is never separated, then, from the Catholic identity of the healthcare institution.” Furthermore providers who work in these systems are required to sign binding contractual agreements to adhere to the religious directives, whether or not they are Catholic: “Catholic healthcare services must adopt these Directives as policy, require adherence to them within the institution as a condition for medical privileges and employment, and provide appropriate instruction regarding the Directives . . . .”
Gosh so many Political Battles on the Congress Floor seems to have been good PR for Biblical Medicine Establishments. No wonder GOPs hate Obamacare-it's Holy competition. (I thought it was Just the Money...)
The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services ERDs in full are readily available to public, but here are some key samples and implications:
Fertility Treatment: “Reproductive technologies that substitute for the marriage act are not consistent with human dignity.”
Contraception: “Catholic health institutions may not promote or condone contraceptive practices.” . . . “Direct sterilization of either men or women, whether permanent or temporary, is not permitted in a Catholic health care institution.”
Abnormal Pregnancies: “In case of extrauterine pregnancy, no intervention is morally licit which constitutes a direct abortion.”
In the Beginning...Every Potential human worker BEE-ing must be Born!
Prayz the Lord! Holy Jesus!
THESE Disturb Me the Most:
Advance Directives: “A Catholic health care institution . . . will not honor an advance directive that is contrary to Catholic teaching.” Where patient directives and bishop directives conflict, the directives of the bishops take precedence regardless of a patient’s own religious or conscience obligations.
DNR: “The free and informed judgment made by a competent adult patient concerning the use or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures should always be respected and normally complied with, unless it is contrary to Catholic moral teaching.” Since this battle heated up, stories are emerging in which Catholic hospitals have force-fed incapacitated patients whose advance directives specifically forbid this.
Death with Dignity: “Catholic healthcare institutions may never condone or participate in [Death With Dignity] in any way.” Physicians are prohibited even from discussing options that exist in other institutions or making referrals.
And Every human worker BEE-ing must suffer for redemption painfully!
We must pay back our FULL FAMILY UNION DUES at the end! AMEN!
They apparently want to BILK us to the very painful end of life... (Notice how it starts with the conception issue directives straight towards Death issues?) From birth to death He's Got the whole world in His hands...If the Biblical Hospitalists have their way.
Tomorrow I will turn 61. I will be moving into a 55 and over Senior Apartment Complex. (Pre- assisted living, Pre-Nursing Home) on June 1st. A place where I can finish my independent life and get Hospice in my apartment for the end -Plus I am on the Border of Vermont where the Death with Dignity was just voted on and passed.
I thought I was staying a Step Ahead of THEM Controllers (who have un-separated Church and State.)
Damn!