Would Federal government-operated hospitals be more efficient and equitable than state government-operated hospitals?

Not likely.

Will not hospitals run by any government be the same:  neither efficient, nor equitable — and super-saturated with bureaucrats?

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Blessed Mary MacKillop always insisted that her schools never accept any government funding.

To her, a school committed to saving children, not only from inability to read and write, but also from going to hell, must be staffed by persons (nuns) uninterested in their career, totally interested in the children.

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The same applies to hospitals. 

We can only heal the sick, body and soul, if health care is delivered by persons spiritually motivated — interested neither in pay nor promotion, but only in pleasing God and in saving their own souls and the souls of those entrusted to their care.

Achieving this would require thousands of school-leavers willing to work as priests, sisters and brothers — unpaid — in Catholic-run, government-unfunded hospitals.

If the Catholic Church and its schools did their job properly, the Church could provide all the charitable welfare our society needs — secular, government-run welfare agencies like hospitals becoming redundant as Church agencies expand within (and in competition with) the crumbling empty shell of the so-called “welfare state”.

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Historically, the Church has always included Orders of priests, brothers and nuns devoted to charity work.

Members of such Orders make three vows: to be poor and celibate and obedient to their Superiors — leaving them nothing to do in life except full-on helping the poor, as and when directed by their Superior, plus saying their prayers.

That’s all — no distractions of family, career-ambition or private business to sidetrack their attention.

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The need to keep government out of schools and hospitals would, of course, not apply if the government itself was Catholic.

How to achieve that target?

In the 21^st century, the biggest obstacle is to get Church people to understand that one of their roles as a Church is to govern — yes, to govern, indirectly and in tandem with the (Catholic) state.

The influence of so-called “ecumenism”, “multiculturalism” etc. — the notion that all religions lead to God — has white-anted the Church’s resolution in this regard.