Has the Pope endorsed socialized medicine?

[laszlo]

Until the 1920’s the health care was available for everyone but the poorest people. Anyone needed to get medical help either from physician or from hospitals could afford to par for himself, and the poorest get it as charity.

The change started when the Goverment started to controll the access to the medicine, either by requiring state license to the physicians, and controlling the distribution and manufactoring of the drugs.

At the beginning the effect was slow, the insurance industry became involved only during WWII, became necessary only after that. This gave a boost to the lawyers and the liability lawsuits, everybody started to pay the mistakes of the few triple that the victims themselves received (same amount to the lawyers and same to the curts as fees and profit to the insurers)

The medical inflation raised to the sky when the Government durng Reagan’s time stopped the government sponsored Research & Development. Usurers bough up the intellectual properties, and let us pay for it with inflated prices.

The question should be not, weather the medicine should be socialized or not, but weather the abuse of the lawyers/insures through the liability and usurers though the purchase intellectual property should be stopped or not?

 

[rossum]

I’m actively committed to finding the truth about Catholicism. Consequently I’ve narrowed my field of focus down to a few key questions. As per my title, this question is one those of great concern to me. Hopefully I’ve the right forum. If not, please re-direct me.

Straight up, it’s my opinion that Christ’s Church should be taking care of it’s own, not some worldly (and likely anti-Christian) government agency. I simply can’t see any situation where Christ’s Spokesman would endorse such. If the Pope has done this, then I’d find it unlikely he’s speaking for Christ.

Please feel free to correct anything you believe I have wrong here.

The Pope has neither endorsed or not endorsed ‘socialised medicine’. That is a primarily American political argument.

There is no Church run campaign in the UK against the National Health Service, which probably counts as ‘socialised medicine’ in American terms. Similarly in other European countries which have centralised government run health services, there is no Catholic campaign to move to something more like the American system.

It seems to me that in general the Church leaves this question to governments to decide.

rossum