UN-WHO (World Health Organization)-care without abortion? Doesn’t the Vatican read the weekly reports from Austin Ruse’s C-FAM (Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute), or haven’t they heard enough from the United States about Obamacare and its Obamandate?
Vatican official calls for universal health-care coverage
CWN – May 23, 2012
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.
Archbishop Zygmunt Zimoski, the president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care, said that wealthy nations should help impoverished countries to provide full health-care coverage for their people.
Archbishop Zimoski did not specify what form this health-care coverage should take. But he did say that it “cannot be the effort of the state machinery alone.” The Vatican delegate said that private health-care providers must be part of the overall solution. He 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.”
Additional sources for this story: Holy See: Catholic Church key provider of healthcare (Vatican Radio) www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=590224
Don’t forget arguing for universal dental care (whether you have teeth or not), universal liability insurance (whether you own a motor vehicle or not), and universal haircuts (whether you’re bald or not)!
If the vatican wants universal health care, let the vatican pay for it and administer it. Otherwise, don’t bitch when the State (New World Order) uses it as cover for eugenics.
Love the way church hirlings think they can snap their fingers and conjur some collectivist solution to such problems.
They have bright ideas, hence all the complexities, inefficiencies and enormous problems with a universal healthcare system just disappear.
Just point a finger: YOU PAY – YOU GET. Such problem solvers in Rome.
They’ve been to the NO seminaries and live in Rome. Of course they have the all the answers.
I think the point of the Archbishop’s address has been missed. Although he couches things in very unfortunate terms like “the right to healthcare” and the “international community” not all the ideas are unCatholic. His Excellency is actually stressing the importance of providing health care as an act of charity and that their lies an obligation on those who are richer to help the poor, both at the level of private citizens and at the national (and international) level. And twice he expresses – albeit rather weakly – the necessity of morality to come into the provision of health care. I didn’t see anything in that address to come to the conclusion that he intends every nation to bring in a state-run health system, let alone that the state cover anything other than basic health care.