Posted on 09/18/2009 4:01:53 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
Yes, First Lady Michelle Obama is now aggressively crusading for her husbands health care takeover under the guise of championing woman who have been crushed by the system.
One woman Mrs. Obama wont be spotlighting?
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Im re-printing my June 19, 2009 blog post and column again here in its entirety to get the message out about Michelle Obamas role in creating a health care horror story she wont be publicizing. I repeat: What have you done for Dontae Adams, lately, Mr. and Mrs. O?
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I blogged about Michelle Obamas role in creating a patient-dumping scheme for the University of Chicago Medical Center back in March. With her husband and the Democrats unleashing health care horror story anecdotes to gin up public fear and build support for the beleaguered Obamacare plan, my syndicated column today revisits the kind of reform the Obamas and their Chicago cronies champion and who benefits.
Heres a challenge to the ABC News Obamacare infomercial producers. I dare you to ask President Obama this question: What have you done for Dontae Adams, lately?
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The Obamacare horror story you wont hear
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
The White House, Democrats, and MoveOn liberals are spreading health care sob stories to sell a government takeover. But theres one health care policy nightmare you wont hear the Obamas hyping. Its a tale of poor, minority patient-dumping in Chicago with First Lady Michelle Obamas fingerprints all over it.
Both Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Democrat Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago have raised red flags about the outsourcing program, run by the University of Chicago Medical Center. The hospital has non-profit status and receives lucrative tax breaks in exchange for providing charity care. Yet, it spent a measly $10 million on charity care for the poor in fiscal 2007 when Mrs. Obama was employed there1.3 percent of its total hospital expenses, according to an analysis performed for The Washington Post by the non-partisan 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.
Dont 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. Under the Orwellian banner of an Urban Health Initiative, Mrs. Obama sold the scheme to outsource low-income care to other facilities as a way to dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents. The program guaranteed free shuttle rides to and from the outside clinics.
In truth, it was old-fashioned cost-cutting and favor-trading repackaged as minority aid. Clearing out the poor freed up room for insured (i.e., more lucrative) patients. If a Republican had proposed the very same program and recruited black civic leaders to front it, Michelle Obama and her grievance-mongering friends would be screaming RAAAAAAAAACISM! at the top of their lungs.
Joe Stephens of the Washington Post wrote: To ensure community support, Michelle Obama and others in late 2006 recommended that the hospital hire the firm of David Axelrod, who a few months later became the chief strategist for Barack Obamas presidential campaign. Axelrods firm recommended an aggressive promotional effort modeled on a political campaignappoint a campaign manager, conduct focus groups, target messages to specific constituencies, then recruit religious leaders and other third-party validators. They, in turn, would write and submit opinion pieces to Chicago publications.
Some health care experts saw through Mrs. Obama and her public relations man, David Axelrodyes, the same David Axelrod who is now Mr. Obamas senior adviser at the White House. The University of Chicago Medical Center hired Axelrods public relations firm, ASK Public Strategies, to promote Mrs. Obamas Urban Health Initiative. Axelrod had the blessing of Chicago political guru Valerie Jarrett now White House senior adviser.
Axelrods great contribution: Re-branding! His firm recommended re-naming the initiative after [i]nternal and external respondents expressed the opinion that the word urban is code for black or black and poor .Based on the research, consideration should be given to re-branding the initiative. Axelrod and the Obama campaign refused to disclose how much his firm received for its genius re-branding services.
In February 2009, outrage in the Obamas community exploded after a young boy covered by Medicaid was turned away from the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dontae Adams mother, Angela, had sought emergency treatment for him after a pit bull tore off his upper lip. Mrs. Obamas hospital gave the boy a tetanus shot, antibiotics, and Tylenol and shoved him out the door. The mother and son took an hour-long bus ride to another hospital for surgery.
Ill guarantee you this: Youll never see the Adams family featured at an Obama policy summit or seated next to the First Lady at a joint session of Congress to illustrate the failures of the health care system.
Following the Adams incident, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) blasted Mrs. Obama and Mr. Axelrods grand plan. The group released a statement expressing grave concerns that the University of Chicagos policy toward emergency patients is dangerously close to patient dumping, a practice made illegal by the Emergency Medical Labor and Treatment Act (EMTALA) signed by President Reagan, by the way and reflected an effort to cherry pick wealthy patients over poor.
Rewarding political cronies at the expense of the poor while posing as guardians of the downtrodden? Welcome to Obamacare.
I think she's confusing the current health care system with Cash for Clunkers.
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She also gave her sob story about her daughter. She said she had to take her to the emergency room and if it wasn’t for Barry’s health insurance she wouldn’t have gotten care. That’s a lie since all hospitals are required by federal law to treat people in the emergency room regardless. Another lie from the Obama’s .......
In her big lie, she said the doctors told her the child MAY have menengitis. I would like to know if she actually had it. Was she about to cry today? I really don’t like her.
Plus MO got a huge pay raise when her husband pork-barrelled federal money to the hospital.
It sure would be nice to see some ambitious GOPer or conservative candidate find Dontae’s mother and get her consent to feature her and her son in campaign ads against the Osamas. Maybe it would take a little “walking around money”, or some dollars to help with the kid’s further health care requirements.
Her job made sure that the black “community” wouldn’t object to UofC’s plan. This is Jesse Jackson style extorsion.
She has the same personality as Barry - and neither do I. She’s just as arrogant and elitist as her husband. What’s with this thing she did about going to a farmers market a block away by limo - tying up all sorts of streets and traffic - something like three or four security SUV’s ...
She had to get some veggies to go with her lobster.
I thought she had this veggie garden on the WH lawn or someplace ....
Well, maybe she just wanted to show off her new outfit.
>>”Whats with this thing she did about going to a farmers market a block away by limo...”<<
I don’t know, but Drudge has a picture of her trying to smile at the camera. I think she has passed the Hildebeast in regards to the ‘booty mass ratio’. Maybe too much of that $100.00 a pound beef?
Say it ain’t so. I’m shocked. Shocked!
Yes, they did have a garden. It was going to change America! Too bad the soil and veggies were loaded with LEAD. From the picture I can see where most of it ended up.
Enjoy the party while you can, Michelle, because it’s almost over. America is waking up to you and your husband’s racist anti- “whitey” administration. Impeachment time is just around the corner.
Ah yes, I remember reading about that.
Not only that, but does anyone really think she’s going to go to the kitchen in the WH and cook up some food? Does she even know how to cook?
Not only that, but does anyone really think she’s going to go to the kitchen in the WH and cook up some food? Does she even know how to cook?
One of these days people will be crossing into Mexico to get treatment they don’t qualify for under O-care. Soon.
No, I’m not kidding.
With all respect, that an oversimplification.
EMTALA, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor requires that the hospital triage the patient and provide medical care only if it's an emergency condition. If the patient is ill or injured and the triage reveals it's not an emergency condition or active labor, then there's no obligation to treat the patient.
True, ERs throughout the country end up treating strep throat and other non-emergency illnesses for those who seem to think of the ER as their own personal physician's office. However, the hospital is not required by federal law to provide that care.
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