UMC Nurse wrote on August 23, 2009 08:48 PM: UMC can cut 38% from total expenditures the same way that the nonprofit University of Chicago Medical Center, UCMC, did in 2006. UCMC maintained their nonprofit tax status and federal subsidies while reducing charity care expenditures to 1.3%. The average charity care expenditures for other nonprofit hospitals in the same county, Cook County, were 2.1%.
The UCMC program responsible for these savings was called the “Urban Health Initiative”. As, Executive Director of Community Affairs, Michelle Obama spearheaded this UCMC program. With a little help from David Axelrod’s spin machine, Mrs. Obama, touted the program as a way to “dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents.” The program was a “free” shuttle service that moved the poor and poorly insured, such as Medicaid patients, from the UCMC Emergency room to “other” facilities. Hey, if we ever get the bullet train, “urban” patients can get a really sweet ride to the lovely California coast. Some may call this scheme “patient dumping”, I prefer “Obamanomics”, because even though it was totally unethical and exploitative, Mrs. Obama was well paid, helping her and her husband move up the “Chicago style” political ladder, and aren’t we all so very, very glad all those poor folks, like young Dontae Adam’s, a Medicaid patient who had his lip torn off by a pit bull and was turned away from UCMC in Feb. 2009, sacrificed themselves so that they, and we all can be “helped” by “Obamacare”?

Terry Browning wrote on August 23, 2009 01:07 PM: Care for the sick is an essential part of any modern society...but FREE care is NOT.....we are NOT Socialists (YET...), and we CANNOT keep treating those who dismiss THEIR part in MedCare by NOT putting THEIR $$$ into the system...there was a children's story when I was but a wee lad I was read about an industrious ant that stockpiled food for the winter months, while all around him laughed...until THEY went hungry...ya know what?...I'm kinda mad about giving MY hard-earned food to the termites that REFUSED to apply hard work and savings to THEIR own survival...it may be an analogy, but the sentiment is the same...Thoughtfully, dabear

concerned Nevadan wrote on August 23, 2009 10:27 AM: These illegal aliens figured out a way to use the health care system to their advantage. Unfortunately, it is at the expense of people losing their jobs because the hospital is not earning enough to support their staff. This ultimately affects the US Citizens who work hard and pay their taxes because patient care deteriorates. I say call ICE and have them on standby at the hospital ER's and have these people deported.

MLM wrote on August 21, 2009 05:48 AM: Valley Health System should be embarrased to have Miss Suzie Wood as a spokesperson for their Hospitals. To say that at their ED patients get asked if they want to go to UMC because they may have friends there is ABSURD, what what she thinking? Did she know how ridiculous her statement is, what she should have said instead is WE at Valley Hospital sent every illegal and uninsured patient to UMC and she would have been believeable and correct on her statement!!!!

Healthcare_Worker wrote on August 20, 2009 09:29 PM: @ Tom, Burbank

First, I know what @ means. The comment was directed at / to that particular poster. please become familiar with internet slang.

Secondly, if you are from or in Burbank, it's your people who have ruined this state. Californicators.

Thirdly, we do require a govt. ID for all services. Did you happen to know that the Mexican consul gives out ID's to illegals in Las Vegas? It's a valid govt. ID by law.

Fourthly, Bedpan? You better not need a catheter on my watch buddy. I can promise you, it will be a long, slow, excrutiating procedure.

Scott#2 wrote on August 20, 2009 08:44 PM: Lets not forget about how much the long running Anchor Baby program is costing us. Try defending this program to someone while sober.

Delaware Bob wrote on August 20, 2009 08:34 PM: Illegal aliens are bankrupting our social hospitals and social services. Now more than ever, our government or the States have got to get these illegal aliens out of this Country and back to their own country where they belong.

I for one, am sick and tired of these ILLEGAL ALIENS snubbing their nose at our immigration laws and the many other laws of this Country. If our Federal Government can not ENFORCE our immigration laws, and get these ILLEGAL ALIENS out of this Country, then let the States do it! One way or another, an end has to come to this illegal immigration, and not with AMNESTY! Amnesty will only encourage more ILLEGAL ALIENS to invade our Country and reward those who broke our laws and raped the American taxpayer in many ways...depressing our wages, taking our jobs, overwhelming our schools with their ILLEGAL ALIEN children, driving without a license or car insurance, all the crime from stolen identities to rape, drugs and everything else.

Not to mention the BILLIONS sent out of this Country every year. How does that help our economy? Yes, how does it help?

It's time for ZERO TOLERENCE with these ILLEGAL ALIENS. It's time for them get out of this Country and back in their own Country where they belong. When we get rid of the ILLEGAL ALIENS, we will get rid of all the problems that go with them. THAT IS A FACT!

Joe C wrote on August 20, 2009 08:19 PM: I don’t know how anyone else feels about Kennedy but he now wants to change the state law so the governor can immediately replace him.
If he cannot vote for the democratic agendas including amnesty for illegal aliens.

Now the law is they can wait five months before a vote.
This is a law that democrats put into place in 2004 so the republican governor Mitt Romney could not replace the senate seat with a Republican.
Now they want to rig another senate seat to push their agendas.

I don’t care who thinks I’m crude but when Kennedy dies, I’m having a dead Kennedy party.
Kennedy and OJ have much in common they both got away with murder but Kennedy is also guilty of murdering a country.

I am sick of those that have destroyed our country and I’m including Bush and his gang.

Berkley and Obama hang our OBGYN's out to dry in the ER wrote on August 20, 2009 08:05 PM: TO: Tom Burbank, I worked admissions in the ER Trauma unit in Reno.

I left that eight years ago, and everyday I remember no I.D.'s, no Social Security numbers, no health insurance, no co-operation.

The Dr.'s were treating patients who who wouldn't give any information. Nice sitting duck mode for the doc's to be in.

The Obama's and Berkley's put our Dr.'s at professional risk everyday.

Tom, Burbank wrote on August 20, 2009 07:31 PM: TO: Healthcare worker (not @, which means 'at'), pull your head out of your bedpan.

- 100 job lost at Sunrise? Start thinking of reporting illegals as saving your own job.

- Calling ICE isn't playing cops.' Just out of curiosity, how much money would be enough to decrease your apathy?

- Require ID from ALL patients, and voila!, no lawsuit.

- Federal money is still taxpayer money. A shell game with money doesn't really change things. (In addition, both California and Texas have tried going after the Feds, to little avail iIt was Gov. George Bush, er, Boosh, who sued the Feds to collect money, if you can believe that). Vote out all incumbents and replace them with politicians who won't tolerate this farce.

You have lots of complaints and as many excuses. Don't 'play politician,' and simply blow hot air up our blogs, DO SOMETHING. We all have the power to change this, and it starts with removing all incumbents from office.

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