Journalism in the Public Interest   Catholic Hospitals Grow, and
With Them Questions of Care   Abortion rights supporters hold a
rally at the state Capitol in February 2013, in support of a
measure that would require most insurers in Washington state to
cover abortion. Now, after a wave of mergers and alliances
between Catholic hospital chains and secular community
hospitals, some Washington state residents are worried services
like abortions will no longer be as widely available. (Rachel La
Corte/AP Photo)  Oct. 17: This story has been corrected.     In
affected communities, the news is not going over well.
Then there’s this:                  The Director of CATHOLIC
Medical Center, in Manchester, N.H., has a BASE salary of $1.3
MILLION / yr….and you wonder why Obamacare is such an expensive
joke…???...  Bruce J Fernandes  Oct. 17, 1:12 p.m.  Just as a
sidebar.  I recently was doing homework to determine which ACA-
approved plan I would buy OUTSIDE the state alliance and found
something interesting a