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Sigh: As Catholics Sue Obama over Contraception,Vatican Continues to Pursue Government Healthcare

mo'brien Wrote: May 25, 2012 6:57 AM
Health care evolved from a ministry to a business. Opportunists pushed the Catholic Church out of the way to make health care what it is today. Declining numbers in health care ministries, greater government regulation and the cancerous growth of government health care programs have all contributed to the rise in health care costs and out of control insurance fraud. That the Church would support universal health care should not be surprising, particularly since it has been relegated to bystander status in the health care picture (for the most part). Their continued naivete about the tendency toward corruption with large government programs is frustrating. This from the people who preach to us about concupiscence.

Despite the tribulations the American Catholic Church has been suffering with the Obama administration, the Vatican continues to pursue government-enforced universal healthcare. Its ambassador to the United Nations recently issued a statement encouraging all member nations to move toward a system of universal healthcare, implemented by government.

The Vatican said the Catholic Church is "committed to universal healthcare coverage" in a release Thursday that described a speech by one of its leaders before the World Health Assembly.

Archbishop Zygmunt Zimoski told the meeting in Geneva on Wednesday that the Vatican supports Resolution WHA64.9, a measure that...

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