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Article: Caritas ends joint venture ; Was at odds with insurer on abortion
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2009
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Caritas Christi Health Care, the financially challenged Catholic
hospital system founded by the Archdiocese of Boston, is abruptly
ending its joint venture with a Missouri-based health insurer at the
insistence of Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, who has decided that the
relationship represented too much of an entanglement between
Catholic hospitals and abortion providers.
The change will have no effect on patient care, because Caritas
will continue to participate in the state- subsidized program,
called Commonwealth Care, but now simply as one of many healthcare
providers treating patients, and no longer as a co-owner of an
insurance venture.
Caritas's withdrawal from the insurance venture, just ...