The Poltics of Health Care - 4 of 4

The Politics of Health Care – 4 of 4
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/catholic-bishops-lobby-for-obamacare-annesty

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Indeed, the Bishops openly state in their January 26 letter that the House and Senate bills need to be expanded because they “leave between 18 and 23 million in our nation without health insurance.”

In addition the bishops openly state in their letter that they want “undocumented persons” – illegal aliens – to be able to purchase insurance in the new health care exchange established by the federal government.

Gabino Zavala, an auxiliary bishop in the Archbishop of Los Angeles for the San Gabriel region, has written an article noting that the religious left, which he describes as “religious leaders and faith-based organizations,” has been pushing for a national health care system “for decades.” He adds, “Catholic bishops have been pushing for a national health care system “for decades.” He adds, “Catholic bishops have been leading advocates for universal health care as a fundamental human right, not simply a luxury for the privileged few.”

The religious left, led by the Catholic Bishops, may represent the only way liberals in Congress can ultimately succeed in passing ObamaCare. But that assumes that conservative Catholics will not resist the push to use Church resources to give amnesty and federal benefits to illegal aliens as a way to take Catholic hospitals off the hook for many of their health care costs.

Left-wing Huffington Post blogger John Gehring notes with pride and pleasure that the Catholic bishops have “signaled they will play a leading role in pushing for comprehensive immigration reform this year by using the power of their pulpits and bipartisan political influence on Capitol Hill” and the recent briefing was designed “to outline plans for persuading the public and wavering members of Congress that fixing a broken immigration system is a moral and practical priority.”

Gehring is Communications Director and Senior Writer for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, an organization funded by atheist George Soros. He is also a regular contributor to the God’s Politics blog run by Jim Wallis of “Sojourners,” which received $100,000 from the Soros “Open Society” institute to support the “Christians for Immigration Reform”campaign… An audio recording and transcript of the conference call are available at the La Raza website…

The Huffington Post’s Ghering said that Bishop John C Wester of Salt Lake City and Bishop Hubbard of Albany, New York who are respective chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ committee on migration and international policy have announced that over a million postcards “touting the need for immigration reform have been ordered by diocese and parishes across the country” and that the cards will be sent to congressional offices.

The campaign is being run by the Justice for immigrant’s campaign, an official project of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops…

George H. Kubeck, In pursuit of the truth, www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, Feb. 5, 2010
P.S. I think that’s wonderful CINO writer Ghering. Immigration is a separate issue from Health Care Reform. Don’t use it as a carrot stick to pass ObamaCare which prostitutes the life issues, conscience & religious rights, and historic marriage between a man and woman!