Column: California blocks a hospital merger amid concerns about religious limits on care

  • 📰 L.A. Times Health
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 24 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 13%
  • Publisher: 59%

Nigeria News News

Nigeria Nigeria Latest News,Nigeria Nigeria Headlines

Concerns about religious restrictions on care helped to block a big hospital merger in California.

of two sectarian hospital chains in Northern California, asserting that the deal had the"potential to increase health costs, and potentially limits access and availability of healthcare services.”

Although Becerra didn’t refer explicitly to the religious limits on the hospitals’ services in his announcement Thursday rejecting the merger, those limits were among the concerns cited by consumer groups that filed objections to the deal, such as Health Access Calfornia and the ACLU of Northern California. No hospitals were to be shuttered after the merger, suggesting that Becerra’s reference to “access and availability” of healthcare turned on religious strictures.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Companies don't need religious freedom. That's for sentient beings. Corporations may be Legal People, but fanciful naming doesn't imbue them with a brain. For further thoughts, see my article (third in a 3-part series on corporate personhood)

What are the benefits of preaching belief in any 1 of over 4000 competing religions ... that nobody can prove and against all the evidence?

This is what the communist did.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 364. in NG

Nigeria Nigeria Latest News, Nigeria Nigeria Headlines