So..Obama, health care and Catholics. Did he blow it?

[August West]

Religious hospitals don't pay taxes. They are run as non-profits.

Thanks for clearing that up, $tevie. I pay little to no attention to the relations of organized religion and the government, and this is a useful opportunity for me to do so.

You can happily stand in 21st century judgement, but remember the basic fact that without those 'religious organizations', public health in this country would have never gotten started.

It would seem that if religion has control over health care, both then and now, public health is still not established.