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Anticipation of the Supreme Court?s June 28 decision on President Obama?s health-care reform law dominated a forum of Catholic health care providers from religious congregations that was coincidentally held that same morning in Manhattan.

?I think we?re all a little nervous about the decision coming up,? said Cardinal Dolan, welcoming the group at the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center in Manhattan about an hour before the 5-4 decision upholding the law was announced.

?And it?s kind of exemplary of one of the major challenges you all face?the lack of certitude, the lack of clarity of the whole health care enterprise in the entire nation,? he said.

The cardinal encouraged the group, whose members run nursing homes, home health agencies and specialty hospitals in the archdiocese, to continue the collaborative efforts they?ve undertaken in the last few years.

Cardinal Dolan Addresses the Crowd

He also praised the work of the women religious in health care.

?They?ve got their ear to the ground?they know what they?re doing, they know what the needs of God?s people are,? he said.

?And right now, they?re saying ?We may have been able to do it separately in the past, but right now we?ve got to be collegial, we?ve got to be collaborative.?

The forum, which included briefings on upcoming issues in federal and state health care policy?regardless of the Supreme Court?s decision? was sponsored by ArchCare, the archdiocesan network of nursing homes and continuing and specialty care programs, and by the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm and Cabrini Eldercare.

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Introducing the cardinal, ArchCare president Scott La Rue said, ?This is quite a momentous day.?

He called it ?D-Day,? first, because Cardinal Dolan was coming ?to support our group?and, of course, it?s decision day for the Supreme Court.?

Regardless of the court?s action, La Rue said, ?Health care reform is here to stay, and the only way we can go through it is to go through it together.?

Source: http://www.cabrini-eldercare.org/cabrini-eldercare-co-sponsors-a-health-care-forum-with-cardinal-dolan

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