IT'S FINE IF YOU JUST WANT TO SHOVEL MONEY AT THE PROBLEM...:

Some Roman Catholic Bishops Assail Health Plan (DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, 8/28/09, NY Times)

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has been lobbying for three decades for the federal government to provide universal health insurance, especially for the poor. Now, as President Obama tries to rally Roman Catholics and other religious voters around his proposals to do just that, a growing number of bishops are speaking out against it. [...]

The bishops’ opposition — published in diocesan newspapers, disseminated online by conservative activists, and reported in a Roman Catholic newspaper to be distributed this weekend at churches around the country — is another setback for Mr. Obama’s health care efforts. His administration has been counting on the support of Catholic leaders to help rally believers behind his health care plan. Just last week, he held a conference call with 140,000 religious voters to appeal to what he called their “moral convictions.”

The bishops’ backlash reflects a struggle within the church over how heavily to weigh opposition to abortion against concerns about social justice.

...but any measure that controls costs does the opposite. And since the most rational cost control is to just kill the patients....

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 28, 2009 7:30 AM