Reply #81: A. The article is about a MEDICAL administrator. A regime of faith-based initiatives is headed our

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way, ostensibly for economic reform of "health" "care" in this country. Thus faith-based initiatives are an ECONOMIC issue within a religious milieu. Within that context, religious orders historically functioned in such a way as to provide services at a reduced cost compared to the price tag for lay delivery of the same services, e.g. as I said above "nuns do more for less". But they are going away now and Medicare reform is headed at us without the economic advantage that they delivered.