| JWeinCom said: Once the institution starts accepting federal aid, they are not entitled to force others to abide by their religious beliefs. |
Based on most of your posts in this section, I don't agree with you on much - but I do agree with you on this.
If you want to accept money, you accept their terms, simple as that.
Of course it's not necessarily as black and white as that. For example, if the hospital was being financially crippled by the Government in the first place, thus needing the funding to survive, the moral argument wouldn't necessarily be the same. If the mafia broke your legs and then gave you a wheelchair, well, they wouldn't have the moral authority to tell you what to do with that wheelchair, at the very least.
In terms of this case though, without doing any further research on the individual situation of this hospital, and just on the vague knowledge of the general prices of healthcare provision in the United States; it'd be reasonable to assume that actually the hospital really is a net beneficiary of Government action. Much of the price of healthcare can be attributed to the various regulations and tax structures around the healthcare industry.
