Breaking: Largest group of Catholic doctors calls for "reset" of health care reform

The Catholic Medical Association (whose leadership has already come out strongly against the proposed health care plan), has now as a body approved a resolution on health care reform at its 78th annual meeting this weekend in Springfield IL:

"The resolution calls upon Congress and President Obama “to ‘reset’ the effort to enact health care reform legislation, to reexamine their commitment to the principles of the current legislation, and to begin the process anew.”

CMA President Louis Breschi, M.D. explained the need for the resolution this way: “As physicians, we are highly concerned by the direction health care reform legislation has continued to take. The whole thrust of the legislation voted out of congressional committees is flawed. It tries to fix the real problems we have in health care with massive new government spending and mandates.

... The resolution also urges legislators and President Obama to respect the principles of subsidiarity, solidarity, and the patient-physician relationship, as well as to exclude funding of abortion and to provide meaningful protection for the conscience rights of health care providers in any legislation.

The complete text of the resolution can be found here.

Founded in 1932, the Catholic Medical Association is the largest association of Catholic physicians in North America.

We should listen carefully to their concerns both because they are experts in their field and also because they are trying to think about this question and practice medicine as good Catholics.