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So? Are non-profit hospitals exempt from regulations regarding medical practices, licensing, etc., just because they're non-profit? Is a credit union exempt from regulations regarding sound banking practices just because it's non-profit?
What makes you think Catholic Hospitals are giving substandard medical care? Do you have any understanding of the issues you are trying to discuss?
Are they required to comply with the same hospital regulations that non-Catholic hospitals are or not?
These are businesses that a religion is choosing to run in the US. When you choose to run a business in the US, you come under the same set of laws as everyone else running a business.
It's the idea of fair and equal treatment under the law.
Again, why are profit making businesses getting waivers and not the Church - who does more to help the most vulnerable Americans than those businesses do.