Michelle Obama's patient-dumping scheme

A little know but important story is reported at the link below.

The First Lady (upper photo) helped create a notorious program that dumped poor patients on community hospitals, yet the national media ignored the story.

If her husband were a Republican, the story would be front-page news in most newspapers and top billing on TV network news.

The story did receive substantial coverage in Chicago but that’s about as far as the publicity went.

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.

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."

As part of her work as a $317,000 vice president of the University of Chicago Medical Center, Michelle Obama helped create the program!

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.

Mrs. Obama first hatched the UCMC program as the "South Side Health Collaborative," which featured a gang of "counselors" whose job it was to "advise" low-income patients that they would be better off at other hospitals and clinics.

The program was so successful in getting rid of unwanted patients that she expanded it, gave it a new name, and hired none other than David Axelrod (lower photo) to sell the program to the public.

Michelle Obama and David Axelrod, have moved to Washington. As the First Lady and the President's closest advisor, they wield enormous power. Indeed, they may be the most powerful people in the Obama Administration, aside from the President himself.

The report concludes with this statment:

Come to think of it, isn't Obamacare being sold to us in pretty much the same way the Urban Health Initiative was sold to Chicago?

The answer is yes.

Nationalized medicine will dump the masses into Medicaid hospitals where many medical procedures will be denied - especially for the elderly. Many will die waiting to be admitted to these hospitals which will soon be overcrowded.

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