The Obamacare Horror Story You Won't Hear

Townhall ^ | 6/18/09 | Michell Malkin

[pissant]

The White House, Democrats and MoveOn liberals are spreading health care sob stories to sell a government takeover. But there's one health care policy nightmare you won't hear the Obamas hyping. It's a tale of poor minority patient-dumping in Chicago -- with first lady Michelle Obama's fingerprints all over it.

Both Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois have raised red flags about the outsourcing program run by the University of Chicago Medical Center. The hospital has nonprofit status and receives lucrative tax breaks in exchange for providing charity care.

Yet, in fiscal year 2007, when Mrs. Obama was employed there, it spent a measly $10 million on charity care for the poor -- 1.3 percent of its total hospital expenses, according to an analysis performed for The Washington Post by the nonpartisan Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. The figure is below the 2.1 percent average for nonprofit hospitals in surrounding Cook County.

Rep. Rush called for a House investigation last week in response to months of patient-dumping complaints, noting: "Congress has a duty to expend its power to mitigate and prevent this despicable practice from continuing in centers that receive federal funds."

Don't expect the president to support a probe. While a top executive at the hospital, Mrs. Obama helped engineer the plan to offload low-income patients with non-urgent health needs.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I read the job was dropped as a “cost cutting” measure...

[Kozak]

Did you also know that she got a big pay raise at her hospital job when Obama became a U.S. Senator?

Not quite. She got the big bump ( about a %150 pay increase) after Zero steered 10 million in gravy UC's way.....

[DakotaRed]

Mention of this came out during the campaign and as expected, promptly ignored.

The ‘Os’ can do no wrong in the eyes of the state media.

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[LucyT]

The Obamacare Horror Story You Won't Hear

Thanks azishot.

[LADY J]

I feel so sorry for the poor black people who are exploited by scummy people of their own race who use them to suck up money for themselves.

Obamas, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, to name a few, who live high on the hog by keep the poor down trodden.

These poor people have hope that never comes true. I can't believe that they don't ever see the truth & stay so loyal to these crooks.

[Califreak]

If Rush pursues this, he will be the first Black Panther living under Zero’s bus.

[Kickass Conservative]

Lucy, Charlie Brown and the Football.

[MestaMachine]

As far as I know, that “position” doesn’t exist anymore.

[LADY J]

"Lucy, Charlie Brown and the Football."

So true. Some black preachers sermonize that God gives special blessings to those who are poor & suffering - so maybe they think they deserve to be mistreated that way.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

The hospital has nonprofit status and receives lucrative tax breaks in exchange for providing charity care.
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mmmmmmm,,,Then why did they dump patients ?,,,

MeeShell(shock) get a bonus ?...

[MestaMachine]

Yeah. Job was for “new” rep’s wife who surprisingly was on the committee to steer funds to “worthy” projects.
Speaking of projects, have they bulldozed Flint yet? Some of the most violent projects ever built by the hand of man.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Rewarding political cronies at the expense of the poor while posing as guardians of the downtrodden? Welcome to Obamacare.

Excellent summary, not only of Obamacare, but also of the Democrat Party philosophy as a whole.

[nutmeg]

Excerpt:

The White House, Democrats and MoveOn liberals are spreading health care sob stories to sell a government takeover. But there's one health care policy nightmare you won't hear the Obamas hyping. It's a tale of poor minority patient-dumping in Chicago -- with first lady Michelle Obama's fingerprints all over it...

[Yaelle]

I could not live high and mighty like the Obamas after every penny she earned, and the huge pay-for-play raise she got when her husband became a senator, were off the backs of truly poor, in need people.

This is just sick.

I looked up PHONY in the online dictionary just now and there was a photo of Michelle Obama under it. And she was wearing a boob belt and tight sweater.

[MestaMachine]

From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Image from archives of Ali Abunimah)

She's also led a push to get patients who use the ER for routine care connected to neighborhood clinics instead, both to cut costs and to improve preventive care for low-income families.
(Their caption, *gag,* not mine...)

BONUS

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

TANKS,,,seems like most of the pics of those people show

him talkin’ to some raghead/thug/crook/scumbag/etc. and

her Eating...;0)

[freekitty]

Rep Bobby Rush???????

[hoosiermama]

bump

[altair]

There has to be something worse than ‘pond scum’ to call her......

Mrs. Barack Hussein Obama.