The Blago Trial

This post originally appeared on NetRight Nation.

Southside Chicago, The Home of Corruption

By Adam Bitely

Patient Dumping is the practice of dumping those that cannot afford medical services or those that would burden the system onto other medical care providers. At the University of Chicago Medical Center, patient dumping appears to be a routine practice.

In 2002, Michelle Obama became the Executive Director for Community Affairs at UCMC. Interestingly, Susan Sher, who hired Michelle for the UCMC gig, currently serves as Michelle Obama’s chief of staff at the White House. Shortly after Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Michelle received a promotion to become the Vice President for Community and External Affairs. Also serving on the board during this time was Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to the Obama administration.

In this new position, one of Michelle’s top priorities was to solve a problem of too many poor patients or those on Medicare and Medicaid clogging the emergency room at UCMC. To deal with this problem, Michelle helped create the Southside Health Collaborative. This project served to provide a way to shuttle away patients to other medical clinics to receive care.  This was blatant patient dumping.

As the program grew, Southside Health Collaborative eventually changed its name to the Urban Health Initiative.  After hiring David Axelrod’s public relations firm, the name was changed again.

Now we arrive in 2009.  Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL) who represents the district where UCMC is located, sent a letter requesting an investigation into the apparent acts of Patient Dumping to Congressman Edolphus Towns. Mr. Towns is the Committee Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, the committee that Mr. Rush requested to look into this matter.

The letter from Mr. Rush, dated May 25, 2009, has apparently gone unanswered.  We have attempted to reach Mr. Towns’ office but our message has gone unanswered.

The actors in this Patient Dumping scheme are the same actors designing the new Health Care system.  These types of matters must be addressed before this debate is allowed to go any further.

As bloggers, we can get to the bottom of this and it is our duty to start asking some tough questions.

Adam Bitely is the Director of New Media at Americans for Limited Government and the Executive Director of NetRight Nation.

Michelle Malkin also did some good coverage on this issue:

The ObamaCare Horror Story You Won’t Hear

Michelle Obama’s Patient Dumping Scheme

And she also discusses it in her new book, Culture of Corruption.