in Western history, culturally, Church was a founding force for the existance of hospitals, full-stop. Repeat with more money and more fallable humans and yes some of what you say is accurate. But, if you start naming the behavior as if it is synonymous with the original founders of Hospitals, you a) create an intellectual dishonesty on your part, b) attract wing-nuts and sociopaths who are looking for a place to join in the chanting, c) obscure important details while the casual readers focus on the glaring finger pointing.

If you want to actually contribute to this very difficult topic, please refrain from welding disparate labels together in the introductory materials.

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wizzwizz4 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The way I read it, GP is saying that the Vatican's influence reduces such unethical distribution of medical information. Your response reads like a rebuttal, but I'm not sure what you're trying to say, nor rebut.

	▲	mistrial9 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>in most EU countries is that the Vatican still has control over the board of a very surprising number of hospitals. >Needless to say, the EU governments really hate that > if the government wants the Vatican out of the board ... they have to increase spending on that hospital, often by a lot. I'd call them "Vatican hospitals" > one thing government and the Vatican really agree on is that they do not want patients to know the underlying financial arrangements around hospitals > in many cases it's quite difficult to find who controls a hospital even though it's technically public information) I am responding to these somewhat "breathless" statements that imply more than they delineate. My rebuttal is that these words frame a kind of inquiry that is common among conspiracy-attracted commentors. The subject deserves more rigor and less insinuation IMO.