This is an important piece about how hospital consolidation drives up patient costs. But @nytimes has again failed to mention how the Catholic hospitals at the center of this trend restrict reproductive health care: nytimes.com/2018/11/14/hea…
I wrote in July about how any mention of Catholic hospitals in a story like this - particularly when it's about how they are increasingly becoming the only accessible option - should mention these potentially life-threatening restrictions on care: rewire.news/article/2018/0…
.@ReedAbelson aptly writes: "The emergence of a one-hospital town is inevitable in many places." When your town's one hospital is Catholic, it could mean you are out of luck if you want a tubal ligation, birth control, or abortion, even if the pregnancy threatens your life.
See this story for an example of how these restrictions can play out: rewire.news/article/2017/0…
Yet many women still don't know that the hospital they rely on restricts care on religious grounds. It's our job as journalists to inform them. rewire.news/article/2018/0…
