No Strings Attached: How Catholic Institutions Prospered at the Expense of the Administrative State and Patient Autonomy

Abstract

AbstractCatholic hospitals and health systems have proliferated and succeeded in American healthcare; they now operate four of the largest health systems and serve nearly one in six hospital patients. Like other religious entities that Wuest and Last write about in this issue, in their article Church Against State, they have benefited by and supported the long reach of conservative efforts to undermine the administrative state.