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Michelle Obama's Patient-Dumping Scheme

Tam

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Michelle Obama's Patient-Dumping Scheme
American Thinker ^ | March 02, 2009 | David Catron

Posted on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:27:33 PM by JosephSmithNAW

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."

On the rare occasions when other "news" media have bothered to connect the Urban Health Initiative to its glamorous creator, they have attempted to whitewash this tawdry program. Typical of such disingenuous coverage was a story in the Washington Post, which described it as "an innovative program to steer the patients to existing neighborhood clinics."

If Obama's really cared about the poor why did She created a plan to dump the poor from the hospital she worked at? :?
 

MsSage

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All she was doing was making the hospital money and having them show a profit.......geeeee what is so wrong with that? :wink:
Oh ya mean a hospital has to treat ALL no matter if they can pay? LOL
Ya mean big bad ol republicans are not the only ones who want to make money? :p

Hypocrisy in its finest :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

Tam

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They were interviewing some of the people that the hospital was refering to clinics and they were saying that they will not even go to that hospital anymore they drive right by and go to another hospital farther away as they already know what treatment they are going to get if they are not one of the elite the hospital caters to. Just what the poor need to do travel farther and make it harder for their families to visit when they are worried about their loved ones health. But hey the Obama's are looking out to the poor folks. :wink: :roll:
 

TexasBred

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MsSage said:
All she was doing was making the hospital money and having them show a profit.......geeeee what is so wrong with that? :wink:
Oh ya mean a hospital has to treat ALL no matter if they can pay? LOL
Ya mean big bad ol republicans are not the only ones who want to make money? :p

Hypocrisy in its finest :lol: :lol: :lol:

MsSage our president is in the process of trying to completely overhaul our medical system because he thinks hospitals, insurance companies, pharmacys and such are making too much profit. Imagine that....companies wanting to make profits.
 

Sandhusker

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Tam said:
Michelle Obama's Patient-Dumping Scheme
American Thinker ^ | March 02, 2009 | David Catron

Posted on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:27:33 PM by JosephSmithNAW

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."

On the rare occasions when other "news" media have bothered to connect the Urban Health Initiative to its glamorous creator, they have attempted to whitewash this tawdry program. Typical of such disingenuous coverage was a story in the Washington Post, which described it as "an innovative program to steer the patients to existing neighborhood clinics."

If Obama's really cared about the poor why did She created a plan to dump the poor from the hospital she worked at? :?

I don't know why that would happen.... Badaxe, can you shed some light in this?
 

Tam

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Come on you liberals can you explain what Mrs O was up to? :? Do the Obama's care about the poor or is it all show to further their Socialist Agenda? :wink:
 

Tam

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How long do we have to wait to find out what the libs think of the first lady dumping poor patient? Come on nonothing you must have an OPINION on this US health care issue. Was she doing it to help out the poor in the neighborhood or was she doing it for the PROFITS for the hospital. :?
 

aplusmnt

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Obama has just plain beat down the liberals, life was so much easier for them when they could complain about Bush. They played offense for so long they have no idea how to play defense.

I am afraid this site may die a slow death, because Liberals can not defend Obama and they have to large of ego's to humble themselves and admit they were wrong.
 

Sandhusker

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Come on Badaxe, what's up with this deal? Surely Mrs. Obama isn't involved in the immoral actions this article shows her to be? Set us straight.
 

Tam

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hypocritexposer said:
Tam, it wasn't just Michelle. Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett were involved too.

Then you would think that the libs on here would have some kind of defence for the trio wouldn't you? :wink:
 

Sandhusker

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Tam said:
hypocritexposer said:
Tam, it wasn't just Michelle. Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett were involved too.

Then you would think that the libs on here would have some kind of defence for the trio wouldn't you? :wink:

One would think....... However, Badaxe in all of his cleverness didn't want any part of it.
 
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