Vatican Official Calls for Universal Health-Care Coverage

[Catholic_Press]

Speaking May 23 to a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the Vatican’s representative called for universal access to affordable health-care coverage.

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[gamewell45]

Speaking May 23 to a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the Vatican’s representative called for universal access to affordable health-care coverage.

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I must say that this is most encouraging; we are moving in the right direction.

 

[Rence]

Well that’ll open up an even larger can of worms

 

[Leegal]

Speaking May 23 to a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the Vatican’s representative called for universal access to affordable health-care coverage.

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We are already down that path here in the U.S.

Can’t imagine what the Vatican was thinking when they called for universal health care.

Did they not hear about the forced contraception and sterilizations that the USCCB and the administration are now in a lawsuit over the the regulations that would force Catholic faith-based organizations and institutions to provide coverages for things that are contrary to doctrine?

 

[TrueLight]

We are already down that path here in the U.S.

Can’t imagine what the Vatican was thinking when they called for universal health care.

Did they not hear about the forced contraception and sterilizations that the USCCB and the administration are now in a lawsuit over the the regulations that would force Catholic faith-based organizations and institutions to provide coverages for things that are contrary to doctrine?

One wonders.

Is this a strategic positioning for a viable option in addition to federally mandated options?
e added that the Catholic Church is the leading provider of health-care services in the world’s less developed countries, and said that governments should support Catholic and other religious institutions that are active in the health-care field “without obliging them to participate in activities they find morally abhorrent.”

 

[salusanimarum17]

Speaking May 23 to a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the Vatican’s representative called for universal access to affordable health-care coverage.

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The title of the story is not the same as what the representative “called for.” Of course he is going to promote the idea that everyone should have access to health care. He’s certainly not going to say that some people should not be able to receive medical care. His comment is not news, as far as I’m concerned.

 

[Ubenedictus]

We are already down that path here in the U.S.

Can’t imagine what the Vatican was thinking when they called for universal health care.

Did they not hear about the forced contraception and sterilizations that the USCCB and the administration are now in a lawsuit over the the regulations that would force Catholic faith-based organizations and institutions to provide coverages for things that are contrary to doctrine?

it seems you didnt read the article, please check the link. The last sentence sounds like a a gentle rubuke for the proposed american healthcare.
Ubenedictus

 

[Rence]

One wonders.

Is this a strategic positioning for a viable option in addition to federally mandated options?
e added that the Catholic Church is the leading provider of health-care services in the world’s less developed countries, and said that governments should support Catholic and other religious institutions that are active in the health-care field “without obliging them to participate in activities they find morally abhorrent.”

Well, it reads that they want support in their efforts to provide health care services to the world, and call on the world to provide health care coverage for all — but only services that are compliant with Church rules and laws. Secular governments providing healthcare funding and services is what is making the Church unhappy in the first place. So I don’t get why they want more of the same. Secular institutions provide secular solutions.

Many countries already provide health care services to all of their citizens…but they include services that the Church doesn’t approve of. So how much drama will be created by an initiative for secular world leaders to bring health care coverage to all universally.

 

[JonathonofOhio]

We are already down that path here in the U.S.

Can’t imagine what the Vatican was thinking when they called for universal health care.

Did they not hear about the forced contraception and sterilizations that the USCCB and the administration are now in a lawsuit over the the regulations that would force Catholic faith-based organizations and institutions to provide coverages for things that are contrary to doctrine?

Right? “Let’s advocate government ran programs that provide welfare for people and result in larger more powerful governments, and then complain because they make us provide contraceptives and do things that go against our moral obligations.”

Sorry, guys but you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

 

[Theophorus]

Did they not hear about the forced contraception and sterilizations that the USCCB and the administration are now in a lawsuit over the the regulations that would force Catholic faith-based organizations and institutions to provide coverages for things that are contrary to doctrine?

Healthcare is one thing, and indeed it is a Catholic principle to tend to the sick.

Contraception and Abortion are of course not healthcare but intrinsic evils which demean the human race. Facilitation of the objectification of women and the murder of the unborn have no place in legitimate healthcare programs. Of course the very title of this piece shows how it will be spun in some quarters.

 

[Rence]

Healthcare is one thing, and indeed it is a Catholic principle to tend to the sick.

Contraception and Abortion are of course not healthcare but intrinsic evils which demean the human race. Facilitating the objectification of women and the murder of the unborn have no place in legitimate healthcare programs. Of course the very title of this piece shows how it will be spun in some quarters.

Then don’t ask secular governments who don’t follow the teachings of the Church to fund, organize, and manage it. If you do it yourself, you have control over it. If you delegate it out to those who really don’t answer to you, you have no control over it.

 

[_Abyssinia]

Is this issue where there can be a diversity of opinion? It is not a infallible teaching is it? I have experience of living in a country with ‘universal health care’ and while it is is good in theory, I don’t see how it works in practice. It is very expensive, it leads to rationing; tax funded sponsoring of abortion and contraception.

 

[He_Man]

Well, it reads that they want support in their efforts to provide health care services to the world, and call on the world to provide health care coverage for all — but only services that are compliant with Church rules and laws. Secular governments providing healthcare funding and services is what is making the Church unhappy in the first place. So I don’t get why they want more of the same. Secular institutions provide secular solutions.

Many countries already provide health care services to all of their citizens…but they include services that the Church doesn’t approve of. So how much drama will be created by an initiative for secular world leaders to bring health care coverage to all universally.

This is as groundbreaking as calling for all people to stop sinning and spend every waking moment in prayer.

Like, duh?

Who opposes universal health-provisions in keeping with Catholic Teaching? How to get there is the dicey part.

Might as well say he supports owning a gingerbread house on Candy Cane Lane, with shrubbery of gum drops in his front yard, where milk-chocolate rains from the skies, too. Sounds awesome!! Who’s going to object to something so sublime?

 

[Michael_C]

This is as groundbreaking as calling for all people to stop sinning and spend every waking moment in prayer.

Like, duh?

Who opposes universal health-provisions in keeping with Catholic Teaching? How to get there is the dicey part.

Might as well say he supports owning a gingerbread house on Candy Cane Lane, with shrubbery of gum drops in his front yard, where milk-chocolate rains from the skies, too. Sounds awesome!! Who’s going to object to something so sublime?

I agree 100%. Why not call on everyone to convert to Catholicism and attend Mass daily.

 

[He_Man]

I agree 100%. Why not call on everyone to convert to Catholicism and attend Mass daily.

Because while everyone should convert and live the lives of Saints, that message would offend some people. So they take the easy road on issues like this.

 

[Rence]

This is as groundbreaking as calling for all people to stop sinning and spend every waking moment in prayer.

Like, duh?

**Who opposes universal health-provisions in keeping with Catholic Teaching? ** How to get there is the dicey part.

Might as well say he supports owning a gingerbread house on Candy Cane Lane, with shrubbery of gum drops in his front yard, where milk-chocolate rains from the skies, too. Sounds awesome!! Who’s going to object to something so sublime?

With all due respect, the above reads kind of naive. Non-Catholics and non-compliant Catholics would be opposed to it of course. Most people like their birth control and sterilizations, or they wouldn’t be using them. Of course more people favor health care services that include birth control and sterilizations…that’s why they’re using them. Most of the healthcare programs funded by secular governement efforts already include them. So again, the Vatican, asking secular governments to find, organize and deliver healthcare universally, is just going to be fighting over it again, but on a bigger scale than just the U.S.

 

[Brendan]

I like this pronouncement a LOT

I puts the CHURCH, not governments, at the forefront of providing health care.

It also views health care as a global issue. Our government seems far more concerned with giving IUD’s to school teachers at Catholic schools instead of malaria meds for African kids.

Finally, it encourages Catholics to oppose all these immoral practices that governmental health care keeps promoting

 

[_Abyssinia]

I like this pronouncement a LOT

I puts the CHURCH, not governments, at the forefront of providing health care.

It also views health care as a global issue. Our government seems far more concerned with giving IUD’s to school teachers at Catholic schools instead of malaria meds for African kids.

Finally, it encourages Catholics to oppose all these immoral practices that governmental health care keeps promoting

I did not see it like that.

 

[gnjsdad]

Is this issue where there can be a diversity of opinion?
It is not a infallible teaching is it?

It is an infallible teaching. See the social encyclicals of Pope John Paul II and the Compedium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

 

[Rence]

I like this pronouncement a LOT

I puts the CHURCH, not governments, at the forefront of providing health care.

Actually, it doesn’t. If the Church calls for world leaders and countries to fund, organize and deliver universal healthcare, they are asking secular world leaders to do so…The Church is free to provide universal health care already, they don’t need to call for it. What they want is universal health care coverage and they are calling on an organization of leaders to fullfill this coverage.