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White House aide Susan Sher's pay from ex-employer U. of C. medical center in 2009: $511,000
Chicago Tribune ^ | 12-7-10 | Katherine Skiba

Posted on 12/07/2010 10:47:11 PM PST by STARWISE

White House aide Susan Sher earned more than half a million dollars from the University of Chicago Medical Center in 2009, when she left to join the Obama administration only a few weeks into the year, according to a newly released financial disclosure.

Sher was general counsel and vice president for community and external affairs at the medical center before taking a job as Michelle Obama's chief of staff on Jan. 19, 2009.

In that calendar year, the medical center gave Sher $511,000 — $49,000 in unused holiday and vacation pay, $149,000 in salary and bonus pay and $313,000 in a payout of a supplemental executive retirement plan.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chicagoway; deathcare; michelle; nothealthcare; obamacare; romneycare; susansher; univofchicago
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Let's see .. who else has beem connected with the U of C Medical Center?

Valerie Jarrett, Michelle Obama (famously behind the 'patient dumping' initiative), Dr. Eric Whitaker, close Obama buddy, and ironically, David Axelrod's company got a huge contract from that place from MO.

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Related:

University of Chicago Medical Center Patient-Care Disaster Delayed

Biot Report #602: March 13, 2009

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The University of Chicago Medical Center has halted its controversial Urban Health Initiative program, created and emplaced by hospital employees Michelle Obama, Eric Whitaker, Susan Sher, and James Madara, among others. They had implemented a scheme to “redirect” only poor (Medicaid) and uninsured Chicago South Siders (but not affluent patients carrying “good” health insurance) with supposedly less serious health complaints away from the hospital’s emergency department to some 20 local “community doctors, nurses, community health centers and hospitals,” for four reasons described below. (1-14)

First, Ms. Obama, a native South Sider and attorney who received post-secondary school education on the East coast, and Dr. Whitaker, an Iowa Grinnell College graduate, South Side barbershop physician, and former director of the Illinois Department of Public Health under former Governor Rod Blagojevich, reasons that the health care for South Siders “will dramatically improve,” because they will not have “to wait hours at U. of C’s emergency room.” (4)

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Michelle Obama, David Axelrod and the University of Chicago Medical School

08/22/2008 by The Editors

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The Post's Joe Stephens reports today about the many ties between Barack and Michelle Obamaand the University of Chicago and its medical school. Michelle is currently taking a leave from her $317,000-a-year post as vice president of community and external relations to work on her husband's campaign.

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To deal with these issues, the medical center launched an Urban Health Initiative aimed at lessening overcrowding by directing people to nearby health clinics. To help promote the effort, the medical center in December 2006, on the recommendation of Michelle Obama and others at the center, hired ASK Public Strategies, a public relations firm co-owned by David Axelrod, who would soon become Barack Obama's chief campaign strategist.

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Boy .. if you play with the Chicago Machine, you sure get some big bucks.

That place must be a goldmine for the flow of bucks .. and howtheheck does a hospital generate that much green? Something's *very* fishy.

1 posted on 12/07/2010 10:47:18 PM PST by STARWISE
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To: onyx; penelopesire; maggief; hoosiermama; SE Mom; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; ..

Chicago Way .... Ping!


2 posted on 12/07/2010 10:48:20 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

Corruption in Chicago pays very well. Good thing she’s not those evil rich people.

Pray for America


3 posted on 12/07/2010 10:50:42 PM PST by bray (Sarah Palin will destroy the Repub Party, hopfully!)
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To: bray

The only qualifications are cheating, lying and stealing. Also making sure the little people don’t get any benefits to the hospital.


4 posted on 12/07/2010 10:56:29 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: STARWISE

Is the University of Chicago funded with federal dollars? I don’t need to look it up because I’m sure it is with the money this dame is getting. What a scam. It really must STOP.


5 posted on 12/07/2010 10:59:35 PM PST by bronxville
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To: STARWISE
Sounds like the future of medicine. Barry's and Dem Bureaucrat cronies will receive half million dollar salaries while money for care of the elderly is cut.
6 posted on 12/07/2010 11:03:41 PM PST by purplelobster
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To: STARWISE
Is this why I have to buy health insurance or go to jail, to pay for her salary?

-PJ

7 posted on 12/07/2010 11:16:41 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: STARWISE

More fun and games in the socialist paradise with the one essential that makes the whole thing go: OPM (Other People’s Money).


8 posted on 12/07/2010 11:20:54 PM PST by EyeGuy (RaceMarxist Obama: The Politics of Vengeance)
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To: STARWISE

More fun and games in the socialist paradise with the one essential that makes the whole thing go: OPM (Other People’s Money).


9 posted on 12/07/2010 11:21:05 PM PST by EyeGuy (RaceMarxist Obama: The Politics of Vengeance)
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To: Political Junkie Too

“Is this why I have to buy health insurance or go to jail, to pay for her salary?”

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Along with thousands of other wholly extraneous, redundant, unproductive no talent bureaucrats just like her.

Not JUST salary: Her fat pension, her ridiculous number of vacation and “sick” days, her winter trips to warm “conference” locales, her primo health insurance...


10 posted on 12/07/2010 11:26:48 PM PST by EyeGuy (RaceMarxist Obama: The Politics of Vengeance)
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To: STARWISE
....They had implemented a scheme to “redirect” only poor (Medicaid) and uninsured Chicago South Siders (but not affluent patients carrying “good” health insurance) with supposedly less serious health complaints....

This is illegal! Someone the Chitcago should press charges.

11 posted on 12/07/2010 11:38:10 PM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: STARWISE; penelopesire; maggief; hoosiermama; SE Mom; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; ...
When she left to join the Obama admin in 2009, the University of Chicago Medical Center gave Susan Sher $511,000 — $49,000 in unused holiday and vacation pay, $149,000 in salary and bonus pay and $313,000 in a payout of a supplemental executive retirement plan.

Michele Obama was getting $317,000-a-year as VP of community and external relations when she left to work for Obama's campaign. Valerie Jarrett, and David Axelrod's company got huge contracts from MO........they also went to work for Obama........... howtheheck does a hospital generate that much green?.........

They were obviously helping themselves to federal monies. As outlined below---when one instance of wrongdoing is found, there usually are several other instances not yet uncovered.

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www.whistlebloweraction.com
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER
Recovery Amount: $7 million

In December 2009, the State of Illinois and two whistleblowers entered into a $7 million landmark settlement with the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) to settle claims alleging that the UCMC Children’s Hospital violated Illinois law by improperly billing Medicaid for services provided in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

The Illinois Attorney General’s investigation, prosecution and ultimate recovery was started after the whistleblowers—two longtime NICU nurses—filed a lawsuit alleging that the NICU had violated Illinois licensing regulations by systematically placing two high risk neonatal intensive care babies in a bed space licensed for one baby, an egregious practice known as “double-bunking."

The lawsuit alleged that the UCMC placed these high-risk babies at further risk by systematically double-bunking and overcrowding the NICU from at least 1997 through 2005.

Under the unique settlement mechanism negotiated by the State of Illinois and the whistleblowers, the Illinois Attorney General will disburse the settlement money to healthcare facilities that serve indigent women on the South Side of Chicago.

In recognition of the substantial contribution made by the nurses and their counsel, the State of Illinois authorized a 21 percent award, one of the highest awards given under the Illinois qui tam statute.

12 posted on 12/08/2010 1:05:11 AM PST by Liz
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Where do you think all that federal research and medical funding goes?

U of Cs fund-raising efforts allow them to have the liberal elite parked awaiting their next assignment.

This is something FReepers have to realize. The TEA Party has hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of government and political elites against them.

It’s an uphill fight that won’t be won in one election or just at the federal level.


13 posted on 12/08/2010 3:31:21 AM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: bronxville
*** Is the University of Chicago funded with federal dollars? ***

No.
The only 'exception' I guess would be Research Grants for the scientists -- if you want to call that gubmint funding.

Other than that all money comes from tuition and Foundations.

14 posted on 12/08/2010 4:26:15 AM PST by Condor51 (SAT CONG!)
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To: 1010RD

The LIB loser/freaks have NO integrity. They need held in jail.


15 posted on 12/08/2010 4:27:44 AM PST by hal ogen (1st Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: STARWISE
U of Chicago Medical Grand Rounds


16 posted on 12/08/2010 4:31:44 AM PST by Diogenesis ('Freedom is the light of all sentient beings.' - Optimus Prime)
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To: Liz; STARWISE; onyx; hoosiermama; penelopesire; SE Mom

http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2009/20091005-arra-grant.html

University of Chicago receives $42 million in stimulus funds for biological and medical research

October 5, 2009

Researchers at the University of Chicago have been awarded more than $42 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health, part of a $5 billion boost for medical research from the federal economic stimulus package.

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17 posted on 12/08/2010 4:40:02 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief; STARWISE; Liz; onyx; SE Mom; hoosiermama

No wonder our health care and tuition costs are so high!! These people run around accusing wall street, big oil and big business of greed, when they are much worse!

No wonder the chicago thug wanted to take over health care and college loans.....it looks pretty lucrative for the bureaucrats and looters. This whole thing makes my blood boil!


18 posted on 12/08/2010 5:24:45 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: penelopesire
Said early-on on the Chicago crime thread: They all seem to be involved in banking, real estate, and medical industries.

Crooks go where there is money and the picking is easy. Don't want to touch Medicare fraud. Don't want to close the borders( drugs and money). Have continued to allow off shore banking. Is the real estate crash so they can buy more property at lower prices and then bingo it goes back up and they become wealthier?

People in power creating circumstances to create wealth....for themselves.

19 posted on 12/08/2010 5:43:44 AM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: hoosiermama

“People in power creating circumstances to create wealth....for themselves.”

Excellent points, although I wouldn’t say they are ‘creating’ wealth...they are looting it..from others....LOL. The bureaucrats,elites and crony capitalists are robbing this country blind.


20 posted on 12/08/2010 5:49:14 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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