Obama's Healthcare Rules Will Shut Down Catholic Hospitals Nationwide 

by Warner Todd Huston

Some of Obamacare's most destructive forces are quickly becoming common knowledge. We have, for instance, become painfully aware that Obama's claim that we all could keep our plans and doctors "if you like them" is an outright falsehood as some people are already losing their coverage.

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It is also becoming clear that companies will be dropping plans all over the place making a lie of the idea that plans will be cheaper and easier to get once Obamacre comes into force. Another aspect of the destructive nature of this top down-style of "healthcare" is that once government takes over the system Democrats will assume they have the power to force religious-based healthcare providers to perform abortions and this will cause thousands of facilities to close down. This will, of course, make care even harder to get in many cities across the nation as hospital beds are lost in great numbers.

 

In fact, we are already seeing this disastrous situation of closing hospitals playing out in Scranton, Pennsylvania where three Catholic-operated hospitals are likely going to be shut down and/or sold off because of the negative affects Obamacare will have on these facilities.

 

Kevin Cook, the CEO of Mercy Health Partners, the company that operates these three hospitals, told WNEP TV News that Obamacare "absolutely" playing a role in the decision to sell off the facilities.

 

"Health care reform is absolutely playing a role." Cook said. "Was it the precipitating factor in this decision? No, but was it a factor in our planning over the next five years? Absolutely."

 

Almost immediately Obama associate Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association came out to slam Mr. Cook.