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Originally Posted by Pro Deus Et Patria
Let me get this straight...
One of the largest hospitals in the state gets the money needed to expand "clinical capacity by over one-third" based on a request by Barack Obama.
Further, a program that "aims to find neighborhood doctors for low-income people who were flooding the emergency room for basic treatment" is partly created by Michelle Obama because uninsured patients have become known to be a overwhelming crush on ER's originally intended for critical emergency patients.
....and this turned into a sinister conspiracy in your mind?
LMAO!!!
You bet! Sounds like they're doing the right thing there! Sorry that makes you angry...
Oh, and thanks for bringing this to our attention! It's a great story.
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Sen. Grassley Keeps Pressure on Non-Profit Hospitals
Posted by Alicia Mundy
Sen. Chuck Grassley is pounding on two non-profit hospitals demanding to know whether they restrict the care they give patients based on their ability to pay.
As ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, the Iowa senator has been bearing down on hospital tax breaks worth millions of dollars, saying he is concerned that non-profits are “losing sight of the public service that comes with tax-exempt status.”
The second letter went to the University of Chicago Medical Center, after the Washington Post ran a story about ties between the Obama campaign and the hospital, where Michelle Obama is an executive. Grassley raised questions about whether as a cost-saving measure, the hospital had funneled some patients from their emergency room into local free clinics.
The hospital defended that program, spearheaded by Michele Obama, telling the Post: “An ER visit for something that’s not an emergency costs the medical center $1,200. That’s sucking up dollars in health care that we don’t all have to just blow through carelessly.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/09/...fit-hospitals/
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Is it a for profit business or not for profit business with taxpayers dollars available? You seem to lose sight of this VERY important difference.
Doubling Michelle's salary is such a philanthropic touch while turning away patients.
Lets have a look at the numbers shall we?
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“An ER visit for something that’s not an emergency costs the medical center $1,200."
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OK, Michelle Obama got a raise of $195,052 a year.
That's the equivalent of 1625 poor folks treated per year or approximately 140 a month, treated or turned away.
Her raise was a 62% increase in salary, any idea what exactly would justify that at the expense of 1625 poor people per year? Of course that was just her raise, to be certain she wasn't the only one.