Posted on 03/13/2010 5:07:52 PM PST by SloopJohnB
>> A group representing Catholic hospitals
What group?
This lesbian head of this catholic church promoted this crap last summer.
More PR peddled by AP, a dedicated state Media operation.
Government cheese is hard to resist.
They might have offered to save St. Vincents in Manhattan.
The AP and Obama propaganda wing is recycling OLD NEWS to try to do the “ Big Momentum “ PR scam.
Ricardo from the AP must work for OBama . He has been peddling WH faxes for the last year !
Oh boy the votes must really not be there, the MSM is getting hysterical. What’s next Jesus in a piece of French Toast spelled out...I NEED OBAMACARE. Maybe this is the “Even the elect will be fooled” part of the Book of Revelations. I think we need to check Obabaa scalp pronto, I bet there is a 666 on it.
I work for one of the largest East coast Catholic hospital systems - this is simply NOT true!
Sr. Carol Keehan - Catholic Health's $856,093 Nun
Since the election and during the buildup toward health care reform, Sister Carol Keehan and the Catholic Health Association she leads have come up for sharp criticism from prolife advocates. For her public support of the president's pro-abortion appointees to her campaign to enact health care reform now, she is accused of being at odds with the USCCB and the prolife cause, both of which have serious reservations about current health care proposals.
Part of this uproar is due to confusion over the nature of the Catholic Health Association and Sister Carol's role.
CHA is not a repository of Catholic social teaching with regard to health care or an association of moral theologians or a charity in service of the poor. It is a trade association. There is nothing wrong with a trade association, but too many reporters, including members of the Catholic press, have sought comment from CHA without recognizing they are primarily an organization with a vested financial interest in the outcome of the health care debate.
CHA does not represent patients or the poor. Their board is composed of, and Sister Carol represents, the very highly compensated chief executives of large health care conglomerates throughout the country. Lay-led corporations such as San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West and St. Louis-based Ascension Health run dozens of hospitals across numerous states which at one time were directly operated by religious orders.
The executives at these companies are compensated as you'd expect the heads of large corporations to be compensated. In the last year figures are available, the head of Ascension Health made $1,756,790 plus $599,744 in deferred compensation and benefits. Catholic Health East's top exec made $1,185,000 plus $693,000 in deferred compensation and benefits. Both execs are on the board of CHA, where they are joined by numerous execs from similar health systems.
But the biggest fish is Lloyd Dean, former Chair and current Speaker of Membership Assembly on the Board of Trustees at CHA. Dean is head of Catholic Healthcare West with 41 hospitals and clinics in California, Nevada and Arizona.
In 2006, the last year figures are available, Dean made $4,001,892 and the Chronicle of Philanthropy named him the second highest paid non-profit executive in the United States. Dean's compensation, according the the Chronicle of Philanthropy, is based in part on "improvements in the organization's finances". As well it should be. Dean also has made gobs in his position on other boards, including Wells Fargo & Co. Dean is non-Catholic and a donor to both the DNC and the Obama campaign.
This is not to begrudge these executives their salaries. It is only to point out that it is their interest that Sister Carol serves. And she serves them very much as a peer.
Sister Carol is a former longtime health executive herself, and her compensation at Catholic Health Association is $856,093. This in an organization whose expenses are only $17,660,797. Three other employees at CHA each make more than $300,000.
You can compare that compensation with the total program expenses and top executive pay at other national non-profits:
World Vision Intl.
Expenses $1,497,032,856
Top Exec. $281,316
Food for the Poor
Expenses $1,037,301,081
Top Exec. $301,200
American Medical Association
Expenses $234,654,866
Top Exec. $696,521
American Bar Association
Expenses $171,780,689
Top Exec. $791,472
Catholic Health Association
Expenses $17,660,797
Top Exec. $856,093
Sister Carol does not keep her salary. It goes to her order. It's noted here to demonstrate that her compensation at CHA is much more in line with a trade association lobbyist than the head of a charity.
Reporters and news consumers should keep that in mind when soliciting CHA for comment on health care reform. Moral concerns are not their bottom line. The bottom line is.
Gateway pundit just outed them.
Correction:
Some "Catholics" supported the Kennedys.
Some "Catholics" support BO.
Some "Catholics" support Pelosi.
Some "Catholics" supported Kerry.
Engaging in exaggeration tends to cause the lucid to dismiss the exaggerator as a lunatic.
Catholic in name only.
http://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/vatican-statement-on-popes-meeting-with-nancy-pelosi/
“His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the Church’s consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society, to work in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development.”
They are probably CINO’s who belong to thug unions.
.But not the Bishop of Rome.
The devil made them do it.
Don’t give a damn if the Pope himself supports it. The bill is dangerous.
I wonder what Hussein promised or threatened them with...
I believe you. It’s pretty obvious that Barack the Kenyan and his band of ‘RATS are getting ready to “pass” CommieCare this week and are trying to get as much heat off their backs as they can. The state run “media” is in cahoots with the ‘RATS and is coming up with all kinds of lies and garbage this weekend. “Obama’s poor poll ratings are because he hasn’t passed healthcare or his bill ‘doesn’t go far enough’.” Unfortunately, there are a lot of people with very little or no intelligence living in the country who will believe these lies.
It is about frickin' time!
“Catholic Health Association”....what is that? A liberal Catholic group? Lotsa larfs.
Thanks for this info.
My wife works at a Catholic hospital as a nurse. The admin types and most of the nurses support Obamacare. My wife is something of the odd one out....
In their defense, they currently do a lot of charity work taking care of patients other hospitals won’t see.
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