Well to be fair, an article from USA Today states that GW is backing down from this proposal. Kevin Dean
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It doesn't matter. They'll try some other way around this problem of linkage between federal funding and compliance with federal civil rights law and regulation. They're stuck. The whole rational for moving publicly funded social services into faith-based, charity, volunteerism and `civil society' is predicated on erasing this linkage first, and then erasing the money after that. This is just another tactical means to dismantle the remains of the welfare state and its presumed responsibility for public services. Whatever they can't get rid of by this route, they will open up to competitive bidding in the private sector and let the `free market' kill off the rest of it.
I liked the Blue Cross announcement today that it will shift responsibility and (liability) over to the doctors, by rewarding them according to some patient evaluation scheme. This is probably a pre-emptive legal move to dodge the wave of potential lawsuits that are just waiting for a patient bill of rights passage. Keep the gain, share the pain.
There is a certain pleasure in watching this ludicrous danse macabre.
Chuck Grimes