Healthcare And Religous Orders

[inunionwithrome]

Are relgious orders required to have the new health care by mr. pres or are they exempt?

[r2Dtoo]

Well, the Amish are exempt. If your priests and religious have an exemption on Social Secruity and Medicare on religious grounds they should be exempt from Obamacare as well. My guess would be that they are exempted from the individual mandate.

Now, your hospitals are a different matter. They do have to take Obamacare money or close.

[Lilllabettt]

Religious groups that do not discriminate on the basis of religion are not exempt. In other words, if a Catholic hospital wants to be exempt, the law requires them to treat only Catholics.

 

The Little Sisters of the Poor have for their mission the care of the elderly poor, Catholic and not Catholic. The government plans to fine them because they serve people in need regardless of faith.  Pretty awful the idea that the Little Sisters would have to fork money over their to the government instead of using it look after the poor people they clothe,feed and bathe 24/7.

So they are suing the government to stop it.

[Catherine Therese]

One of the major organisations run as an apostolate of the order to which I used to belong is also suing the government for the reason Lilllabettt outlined - they don't discriminate whom they serve on the basis of religion and are therefore, as things currently stand, not exempt from the requirements of the law.

[TheresaThoma]

Religious groups that do not discriminate on the basis of religion are not exempt. In other words, if a Catholic hospital wants to be exempt, the law requires them to treat only Catholics.

 

The Little Sisters of the Poor have for their mission the care of the elderly poor, Catholic and not Catholic. The government plans to fine them because they serve people in need regardless of faith.  Pretty awful the idea that the Little Sisters would have to fork money over their to the government instead of using it look after the poor people they clothe,feed and bathe 24/7.

So they are suing the government to stop it.

 

I really really hope that when all these lawsuits come up that the government will realize just how big of an issue this is and how much of a gap there will be if these different hospitals and groups are forced to shut down.

According to the Catholic Health Association in 2011 there were 630 Catholic Hospitals which employ 641,030 people. 

Sadly I think with communities like the Little Sisters of the Poor they would be forced to shut down their US apostolates if they don't win because the fines are so high.

[inunionwithrome]

:(

[Gabriela]

:(

 

Yeah, dude. Yeah.