In health freedom for all

Bishops of the United States on healthcare reform


“To assure that healthcare for all does not mean freedom for few”: this was stressed by bishops of the United States in a note by which they rejected as insufficient new government proposals to modify the health care mandate regarding religious institutions and organizations. Thursdayy in the note signed by the President of the Bishops' Conference, the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan, explains that the government's draft continues to maintain an excessively restricted” distinction between religious institutions and organizations that would be wholly exempt from beingobligedd to cover abortive services and contraception in their insurance, even if they rely third parties. The bishops judge, therefore, the new proposals as incapable of responding to the “concerns” about the violation of freedom of conscience of employers and their employees. The bishops observe, for example, that certain institutions and organizations would be left out of exemptions, such as those affiliated with congregations or religious orders like hospitals, clinics, universities and charitable structures that are “an integral part of the mission of the Church”.

February 9, 2013


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