Multibillion-dollar mergers affect every aspect of our lives, including our health. Maybe yes and maybe no. Four out of 10 of the largest health-care systems in America are controlled by the Roman Catholic Church. It's not like the old days.
Doctors are no longer gods.
Now we have bishops who are gods. Frances Kissling is a Catholic, but she's on a crusade to keep Catholic doctrine out of medicine. She's the president of Catholics for a Free Choice, and says that when patients enter a hospital that has merged with a Catholic institution, chances are, they'd find some things have changed. They would not have access to family planning, to contraceptives. They would not have access to condoms or to education about condoms.