We used to have a very independent hospital system, precisely because US medical policy (anti-natalist, pro-contraception, pro-abortion, etc.) has never been friendly to Catholic teachings. However, after Vatican II, many of these institutionals effectively became non-Catholic by being turned over to lay boards whose priority was not the protection of Catholic ethical teachings. Also, the religious orders that had staffed these hospitals collapsed, making them financially difficult to support.
I think the time is ripe for the revival of the Catholic (truly Catholic) hospital system, once again staffed and run by religious orders who have ethical and religious motivations for doing so. With something like that in place, Catholics could set up their own insurance system that would remove any supposed need for the government to impose its own, along with its anti-life policies.
Just like the colleges, universities, and high schools.
It's a SERIOUS problem.
They need to start with pre-med and medical school education and training.
And they need to have a training program for priests, would-be bishops, and
vowed religious for hospital administration.
They should start with St. Luke's Gospel and Evangelium Vitae to develop
an understanding of healing as a Christian vocation. Many hospitals and
medical care options in the U.S. are terrible. Been in a hospital lately?
Industrial corporate medicine that views patients as numbers and cash cows.
Forget Obamacare and rebuild Catholic medicine and hospitals.