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Old 12-26-2009, 07:34 PM
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Let's review the facts before we serve dinner, which tonight is an excellent blend of "crow" with a fine "whine". Bon appetit Ralphy.

Angela Adam's, her son's name was Dante. He received emergency care at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He received additional followup care at John Stroger Hospital, a "for profit" facility. UCMC is a teaching hospital, a "not for profit" facility, with higher operating costs than a regular hospital because of the instruction and training it provides.

Another notable Hosptial in Chicago is "Mercy Hospital". In particular Mercy has benefitted from UCMC's program because it now sees a larger number of patients. Patients who used to routinely show up at UCMC's emergency room.

Patient dumping is illegal, period. It is estimated that FORTY PERCENT of the patients in emergency rooms do not need to be there. UCMC specializes in organ transplants, the ER spends a great deal of time and money on cuts, bruises and other less critical conditions that are easily treated by community hospitals or health centers. OFTEN closer to the home of the person needing care than UCMC is! No one is turned away. Patients are counseled and educated as to their options.

Whats that you say? I haven't answered the burning question? Did Dante have insurance or not? Oh yes, he did, and I can prove it! Would you like some more whine with your crow Monsur? Or, would you rather skip dinner tonight in a vain attempt to prove that poor little Dante did not have insurance?

Interesting follow up question's:
What IF Dante did not have insurance? How would John Stoger Hospital get paid for the surgery they performed? Or, would they have been forced to "dump" little Dante? Perhaps their "surgery" would be limited to a "few staples" to close the wound, leaving Dante scared for the rest of his life? All ready poor and now with a serious facial scar how would that impact his ability to find work in the coming years?

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