Catholic Health Association spent over $1 million lobbying on health-care reform [CWN]

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The Catholic Health Association (CHA) spent over $1 million on lobbying in 2009 as the group pushed for passage of health-care reform legislation.

The CHA, an umbrella group that represents the administrators of Catholic health-care facilities in the US, spent $875,000 on its own lobbying efforts last year. That expenditure represented a 64% increase over the previous year’s in-house lobbying cost of $534,000. In both 2008 and 2009 the CHA also spent $160,000 for the services of Cornerstone Government Affairs, a Washington lobbying firm.

The CHA has steadily pushed for adoption of sweeping health-care reform legislation. This week Michael F. Rodgers, the CHA senior vice president for public policy, wrote to members of the House of Representatives urging passage of the reform legislation already approved by the Senate.

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Does the Catholic Health Association really speak for the Catholic Church?:confused:
 
Today I saw that the Catholic Health Association endorsed the Senate version of the health care bill - so much for standing up for life.
 
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Does the Catholic Health Association really speak for the Catholic Church?:confused:
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No I don’t think they represent the Catholic church. I believe thay are hired to represent Catholic hospitals and clinics run by those hospitals. Passage of the health care bill means a lot of additional revenue to those entities.
 
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