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.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
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
Excerpt:
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 hospitals 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 Cs 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.
Chicago Way .... Ping!
Corruption in Chicago pays very well. Good thing she’s not those evil rich people.
Pray for America
The only qualifications are cheating, lying and stealing. Also making sure the little people don’t get any benefits to the hospital.
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.
-PJ
More fun and games in the socialist paradise with the one essential that makes the whole thing go: OPM (Other People’s Money).
More fun and games in the socialist paradise with the one essential that makes the whole thing go: OPM (Other People’s Money).
“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...
This is illegal! Someone the Chitcago should press charges.
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 Childrens Hospital violated Illinois law by improperly billing Medicaid for services provided in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
The Illinois Attorney Generals investigation, prosecution and ultimate recovery was started after the whistleblowerstwo longtime NICU nursesfiled 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.
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.
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.
The LIB loser/freaks have NO integrity. They need held in jail.
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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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!
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.
“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.
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