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Entry: Remember Dagger John! Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/remember_dagger_john#19434 Post contents: Always good to hear about Hughes, especially with St. Patrick's day coming up. But I should like to counsel restraint, or, as my blunt Irish-American USMC then NYFD father would say: calm down. There will be no scene. And, I am afraid I must add, to be fair and thorough, that to advocate one is a counter-productive juvenile fantasy. To explain: if the Catholic hospitals lose their licenses, they'd have a financial heart attack. For starters, why would an anonymous off-site, insurance company functionary approve payments to a non-accredited medical provider for medical services? Then there's the whole liability issue. Basically, before any warrants ever get issued, a bunch of best practices rules in a bunch of three-ring binders in a bunch of offices ice the place. For your transplant operation to be a success the Catholic hospitals will need a pretty big cash-bank on the ready to make the necessary transfusions. Like months. They don't have it. At least not as the Archdiocese is currently running things and taking in donations. What the Church does have is a lot of charitable accounts receivables that, if a bill were sent, and I'm talking figuratively again here, would bust a decent bit of the City's socialist entitlement facade. Something like that is probably what Egan, Bloomberg, and some State legislators are trying to gently explain to running-shorts-on-high-holidays Spitzer. Like, uh, "Elliot, Elliot, look, they just have a thing about abortion; it's not gonna happen. What do you really want?" Hopefully Spitzer just got coaxed into this by some hothouse flowers and doesn't really have a cunning answer to that last bit. Now, if there is no deal, there may be some drama, but Tiannamen Square at St. Vincent's I think not and don't recommend. In any event, if you want to fight more, keep up the good work, keep writing, marry that girl, and donate more to the Annual Cardinal's Appeal. Sent at: 2009 01 08