Catholic Bishops urge Congress to preserve healthcare coverage

[pnwmom]

This is an about-face from the Bishops' position in 2010. (Many nuns supported it, but not the Bishops.)

I wonder if Pope Francis has influenced their change of heart.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/politics/catholic-bishops-urge-congress-preserve-health-care-coverage

On Jan. 18 the USCCB released a letter warning Congress not to overturn the law without providing an immediate replacement to provide continuing coverage for the millions who have been insured under the Affordable Care Act.

"We recognize that the law has brought about important gains in coverage, and those gains should be protected," Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Fla., chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, wrote to House and Senate members.

He said the bishops will examine proposals to amend or replace Obamacare but said that "for now that a repeal of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act ought not be undertaken without the concurrent passage of a replacement plan that ensures access to adequate health care for the millions of people who now rely upon it for their wellbeing."

For those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder, he said, a repeal "would prove particularly devastating."

[Vinca]

1. The bishops have forgotten one thing. The GOP worships prosperity Jesus, not feed-the-poor Jesus.