Showing posts with label patient shunning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patient shunning. Show all posts

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Michelle Scandal?

This story is in today's Chicago Sun-Times, accusing Michelle and David Axelrod of being involved with a program that shuffles poor blacks away from health care so doctors can focus on more lucrative patients.

U. of C. shunning poor patients?
HOSPITAL DISPUTE Obama's wife, 3 aides tied to plan to free up space

BY TIM NOVAK AND CHRIS FUSCO Staff Reporters
Sen. Barack Obama's wife and three close advisers have been involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who don't have private insurance -- primarily poor, black people -- to other health care
facilities.