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Michelle Obama responsible for poor, minority patient-dumping at University of Chica
The Obamacare horror story you won’t 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 there’s one health care policy nightmare you won’t hear the Obamas hyping. It’s a tale of poor, minority patient-dumping in Chicago — with First Lady Michelle Obama’s fingerprints all over it.

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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 there—1.3 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.”

Don’t 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 Obama’s presidential campaign. Axelrod’s firm recommended an aggressive promotional effort modeled on a political campaign—appoint 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 Axelrod—yes, the same David Axelrod who is now Mr. Obama’s senior adviser at the White House. The University of Chicago Medical Center hired Axelrod’s public relations firm, ASK Public Strategies, to promote Mrs. Obama’s Urban Health Initiative. Axelrod had the blessing of Chicago political guru Valerie Jarrett – now White House senior adviser.

Axelrod’s 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. Obama’s 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.

I’ll guarantee you this: You’ll 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. Axelrod’s grand plan. The group released a statement expressing “grave concerns that the University of Chicago’s 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.

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In an uncommonly hard-hitting investigative piece, the Boston Globe’s Binyamin Appelbaum blew the whistle on the rodent-infested, sewage-clogged Chicago slums run by the Obamas’ most trusted confidante. Jarrett refused to answer any questions about Grove Parc, “citing what she called a continuing duty to Habitat’s former business partners.” A “continuing duty,” presumably, to whitewash the inconvenient truth about the failed public-private partnerships the Obamas continue to promote in the White House:

“They are rapidly displacing poor people, and these companies are profiting from this displacement,” said Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle of Southside Together Organizing for Power, a community group that seeks to help tenants stay in the same neighborhoods.

“The same exact people who ran these places into the ground,” the private companies paid to build and manage the city’s affordable housing, “now are profiting by redeveloping them.”

In 2006, while Valerie Jarrett was executive vice president of Grove Parc’s management firm Habitat Company, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex a bottom-of-the-barrel 11 on a 100-point scale. Another Habitat-mismanaged property called Lawndale Restoration was so run-down that city officials urged the federal government to take over the complex.

Jamie Kalven, a veteran Chicago housing activist, told the Boston Globe about Barack Obama: “I hope there is not much predictive value in his history and in his involvement with that community.” Kalven’s hopes will likely be dashed. As Chicago goes, so goes the nation. Obama has made a career of rewarding failure and no amount of overhyped “Hope” will change that. He sponsored a plethora of bills in the state Senate benefitting affordable housing developers. In February 2009, he unveiled a plan to set up a $1 billion Housing Trust Fund “to rehabilitate housing in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods.” “Trust Fund?” Try slush fund, bottomless pit, and eternal stimulus for the real estate moguls posing as saviors of urban America.

In one of those endless Chicago coincidences, Grove Parc Plaza Apartments—now targeted for demolition as a result of years of neglect by Obama’s developer friends—sits in the shadows of the proposed site of the city’s 2016 Olympics Stadium. Valerie Jarrett is vice chair of Chicago’s Olympics committee.
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I just began reading Malkins book Culture of Corruption and she goes over this. Just reading the first 120 pages, it appears, from Obama himself, down to the last, lowest person in his circle, there's not a single person who is not a scum bag.
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Now children, if you want to see a real racist, look no further than this *****:

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That is a true Heil Hitler New Black Panther Party Whitey Hating old hag and she makes no bones about it either.

But why should she, she is now Autonomous in Prestige and Power and can say and do as she pleases.

And we said Racism was dead in America.

Even got one of my Heroes, Bill Cosby stumping for Father Barack and playing the Race Card !!!!!!

I never thought I would see the day Bill Cosby sold out ,,,,, well he won't be catching any accolades from me ever again ..... he is just another Tom under the hood.

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I am really impressed with the Healthcare lobby. Being able to get out there and trash Michelle that quickly is amazing.
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(09-20-2009 01:11 AM)RobertN Wrote:  I am really impressed with the Healthcare lobby. Being able to get out there and trash Michelle that quickly is amazing.

Are you saying that she does not deserve to be trashed?
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And we thought this just a "joke"...

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(09-20-2009 01:11 AM)RobertN Wrote:  I am really impressed with the Healthcare lobby. Being able to get out there and trash Michelle that quickly is amazing.

It's her documented history. And I don't recall Malkin working for the healthcare lobby. 'Course they may have borrowed Olbermaniacs brainwashing ray gun and used it on her.
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(09-20-2009 08:02 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 01:11 AM)RobertN Wrote:  I am really impressed with the Healthcare lobby. Being able to get out there and trash Michelle that quickly is amazing.

Are you saying that she does not deserve to be trashed?
I think it is spin and lies from the insurance lobby to maintain the status quo(ie. billion dollar paychecks to the CEO and record profits) like all the rest of the death panel crap.
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(09-20-2009 08:11 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  And we thought this just a "joke"...

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THe only joke around here are you and your far right wing nuts.
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(09-20-2009 09:03 AM)Paul M Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 01:11 AM)RobertN Wrote:  I am really impressed with the Healthcare lobby. Being able to get out there and trash Michelle that quickly is amazing.

It's her documented history. And I don't recall Malkin working for the healthcare lobby. 'Course they may have borrowed Olbermaniacs brainwashing ray gun and used it on her.
Follow the money(or in my case, followed Wikipedia). Look up her name and see what organizations she works with and you will see that the link is there.

Btw, it is too bad she is so dumb. She looks pretty hot.
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(09-20-2009 05:08 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 08:02 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 01:11 AM)RobertN Wrote:  I am really impressed with the Healthcare lobby. Being able to get out there and trash Michelle that quickly is amazing.

Are you saying that she does not deserve to be trashed?
I think it is spin and lies from the insurance lobby to maintain the status quo(ie. billion dollar paychecks to the CEO and record profits) like all the rest of the death panel crap.

Suppose, hypothetically for the moment, that it is true. Then what would be your reaction?
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(09-20-2009 05:31 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 09:03 AM)Paul M Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 01:11 AM)RobertN Wrote:  I am really impressed with the Healthcare lobby. Being able to get out there and trash Michelle that quickly is amazing.

It's her documented history. And I don't recall Malkin working for the healthcare lobby. 'Course they may have borrowed Olbermaniacs brainwashing ray gun and used it on her.
Follow the money(or in my case, followed Wikipedia). Look up her name and see what organizations she works with and you will see that the link is there.

Btw, it is too bad she is so dumb. She looks pretty hot.

I don't see any money trail on wikipedia. Your hallucinating.
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(09-20-2009 05:45 PM)Paul M Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 05:31 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 09:03 AM)Paul M Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 01:11 AM)RobertN Wrote:  I am really impressed with the Healthcare lobby. Being able to get out there and trash Michelle that quickly is amazing.

It's her documented history. And I don't recall Malkin working for the healthcare lobby. 'Course they may have borrowed Olbermaniacs brainwashing ray gun and used it on her.
Follow the money(or in my case, followed Wikipedia). Look up her name and see what organizations she works with and you will see that the link is there.

Btw, it is too bad she is so dumb. She looks pretty hot.

I don't see any money trail on wikipedia. Your hallucinating.
That is either because you didn't look it up or you didn't do a very good job of research.
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(09-20-2009 05:34 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 05:08 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 08:02 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 01:11 AM)RobertN Wrote:  I am really impressed with the Healthcare lobby. Being able to get out there and trash Michelle that quickly is amazing.

Are you saying that she does not deserve to be trashed?
I think it is spin and lies from the insurance lobby to maintain the status quo(ie. billion dollar paychecks to the CEO and record profits) like all the rest of the death panel crap.

Suppose, hypothetically for the moment, that it is true. Then what would be your reaction?
You mean that what is in that isn't true and is spun by the insurance lobby? I would say that they should be ashamed of themselves and that you should be embarassed to be supporting it.
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(09-20-2009 05:10 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 08:11 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  And we thought this just a "joke"...

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THe only joke around here are you and your far right wing nuts.

Ha Ha... Blow Me, you jihadi.
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(09-20-2009 06:05 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 05:34 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 05:08 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 08:02 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 01:11 AM)RobertN Wrote:  I am really impressed with the Healthcare lobby. Being able to get out there and trash Michelle that quickly is amazing.
Are you saying that she does not deserve to be trashed?
I think it is spin and lies from the insurance lobby to maintain the status quo(ie. billion dollar paychecks to the CEO and record profits) like all the rest of the death panel crap.
Suppose, hypothetically for the moment, that it is true. Then what would be your reaction?
You mean that what is in that isn't true and is spun by the insurance lobby? I would say that they should be ashamed of themselves and that you should be embarassed to be supporting it.

No, I mean suppose that what you are calling "spin and lies" proves to be true. What would be your response then?
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(09-20-2009 06:00 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 05:45 PM)Paul M Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 05:31 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 09:03 AM)Paul M Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 01:11 AM)RobertN Wrote:  I am really impressed with the Healthcare lobby. Being able to get out there and trash Michelle that quickly is amazing.

It's her documented history. And I don't recall Malkin working for the healthcare lobby. 'Course they may have borrowed Olbermaniacs brainwashing ray gun and used it on her.
Follow the money(or in my case, followed Wikipedia). Look up her name and see what organizations she works with and you will see that the link is there.

Btw, it is too bad she is so dumb. She looks pretty hot.

I don't see any money trail on wikipedia. Your hallucinating.
That is either because you didn't look it up or you didn't do a very good job of research.

I did exactly as you suggested. I read what you read on wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin

No money trail. I repeat - no, scratch that, I was being nice earlier - you lie.
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(09-20-2009 06:05 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 05:34 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 05:08 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 08:02 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  
(09-20-2009 01:11 AM)RobertN Wrote:  I am really impressed with the Healthcare lobby. Being able to get out there and trash Michelle that quickly is amazing.

Are you saying that she does not deserve to be trashed?
I think it is spin and lies from the insurance lobby to maintain the status quo(ie. billion dollar paychecks to the CEO and record profits) like all the rest of the death panel crap.

Suppose, hypothetically for the moment, that it is true. Then what would be your reaction?
You mean that what is in that isn't true and is spun by the insurance lobby? I would say that they should be ashamed of themselves and that you should be embarassed to be supporting it.

Just once, I would like to see you answer a question.

If it's true, would you be outraged and angry at her or would you be supportive of her?
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I've noticed that attacking the messenger is pretty SOP for people who are stumped by the message.
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(09-20-2009 07:10 PM)Smaug Wrote:  I've noticed that attacking the messenger is pretty SOP for people who are stumped by the message.

Robert is stumped A LOT.
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