Awful. In an interview the U.S. Catholic Sister Carol Keehan, D.C., president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association supports the healthcare legislation and wonders if opponents of Obamacare are truly pro-life.
She asks “For us as Catholics it’s very hard to be pro-life when we don’t give many many mothers who are pregnant care. Or we don’t give pediatric care, well baby care or sick baby care to children. We have nine million uninsured children in this country. That’s not pro-life.”
Sister Keehan urges Congress not to table the bill. What ticks me off is that she’s using the same ridiculous argument that Congressman Patrick Kennedy used by questioning whether opponents of Obamacare are truly pro-life. And he got into trouble with his bishop because of it. Wonder if the same will be true for Sister Keehan.
HT Catholic Key on Twitter.
March 4, 2010 at 7:19 pm
just look at the books on the shelf next to her…you get a sense of her "tradition"
March 4, 2010 at 8:04 pm
I work at a Catholic Hospital. Guess who is out largest payee in Accounts Payable by a large margin? An ortho implant company? No. Spine implants? No. Open heart? No. Catholic Health East.
March 4, 2010 at 9:18 pm
There's the denture story again. That seems to me a good "reduce reuse recycle" promotion. I'd think the Dem's would have been all in support of that.
March 4, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Conspicuously absent phrases:
1. Unborn
2. Conscience protections
3. Ostracization of pro-life Democrats.
But no, sister can't think of any way that this reform will pass except by reconciliation.
March 5, 2010 at 3:56 am
Why does Sister Keehan not talk about the $12.2 billion in profits made by this country's top 5 health insurance companies from '08 to '09? Why does the Sister not talk about the fact that since 1945 the insurance industry has been one of only two industries (other is major league baseball) to be exempt from federal anti-trust laws? Why does she not talk about the unconscionable profits made by prescription drug companies and the recent studies that have indicated that the industry may be artifically raising prices for certain drugs in expectation of new reforms. If we started fixing some of these problems, we would not need the comprehensive overhaul of Obamacare.
March 7, 2010 at 2:27 am
Companies making a profit do not seem like all that much of a problem to me. Would it be moral if they operated at a loss?
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Sister Keehan has been co-opted by some of the most rotten people in the country. She is in my prayers, as I hope I am in hers.
JBP
March 7, 2010 at 7:42 am
The defects which Sister points out as existing in the present system are certainly intolerable. Woe betide anyone who uses unborn babies as a means to mask their real reasons for opposing the healthcare reforms. I believe that among the industrialized countries of the west, the U.S. stands out as pretty backward on this question.
But having said all that I must admit that Sister entirely fails to address the abortion problem. Even those who maintain that the child in it's mother's womb is only a mass of tissue would be hard pressed to make the case that Abortion on demand (which describes almost all abortions) constitutes healthcare. This is not a religious opinion. It is a common sense fact. There is simply no excuse for for including abortion coveage in legislation which claims to be abiout healhcare.