Would you vote for candidate who wants to close 12% of hospitals (120,000 beds) in a country? Would you vote for candidate who wants to close 7,500 primary and secondary schools in the US (more than 2.5 million students)?
Would such candidate make through primaries? I don't think so. But, president Obama is such a candidate and it seems that he is doing just fine.
President Obama gave the Catholic Church a very difficult choice. Either accept his "compromise" and it can still run your hospitals and schools or don't and close those institutions because it would be against the law not to provide free contraception (and federal government’s legion of lawyers is already sharpening pencils).