hypocritexposer
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They even shuttled them to the Community hospitals, aren't they Kind?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1122691,CST-NWS-hosp23.article
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html
The First Lady helped create a notorious program that dumped poor patients on community hospitals, yet the national media ignore the story. Imagine if her husband were a Republican.
The University of Chicago Medical Center has received a good deal of justly opprobrious press over its policy of "redirecting" low-income patients to community hospitals while reserving its own beds for well-heeled patients requiring highly profitable procedures. Substantial coverage was given to a recent indictment of the program by the American College of Emergency Physicians. ACEP's president, Dr. Nick Jouriles, released a statement suggesting that the initiative comes "dangerously close to ‘patient dumping,' a practice made illegal by the Emergency Medical Labor and Treatment Act, and reflected an effort to ‘cherry pick' wealthy patients over poor."
Oddly absent from most of the unflattering press coverage of UCMC's patient-dumping scheme is any mention of the role our new First Lady played in devising the program. A laudable exception has been the Chicago Sun-Times, which reported last August that "Michelle Obama -- currently on unpaid leave from her $317,000-a-year job as a vice president of the prestigious hospital -- helped create the program."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1122691,CST-NWS-hosp23.article
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html