Well, sort of. She’s employed at University of Chicago Hospitals. But, as Mark Steyn points out, she’s not involved in patient care:
She’s a lawyer who was taken on by the hospitals in 2002 to run ‘programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity, and minority contracting.’
Oh dear. Anyone who has ever worked for a hospital will tell you this is a classic bureaucratic money pit. And it gets worse:
In 2005, she got a $200,000 pay raise and was appointed Vice President for Community and External Affairs and put in chage of the hospital’s business diversity program.
This place obviously has money to burn. I guess University of Chicago Hospitals is one of those rich not-for-profits.
Well, more power to them, and to Mrs. Obama.
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Michelle is a wonderful woman. She and Barack are what this country needs.
Posted 22 Apr 2008 at 12:38 am ¶Make up your mind - either these hospitals have a lot of cash or they don’t.
Posted 22 Apr 2008 at 5:53 am ¶It’s been my experience that there is no correlation between a hopsitals financial position and the salary paid to it’s executives.
Posted 22 Apr 2008 at 7:02 am ¶There was a giant stinking “earmark” (cash payment) from Obama to this hospital in the federal budget.
Silence. Sound of crickets chirping. Total absence of media investigation.
Posted 22 Apr 2008 at 7:02 am ¶‘It’s been my experience that there is no correlation between a hospital’s financial position and the salary paid to it’s executives.’
Rich, the evidence I see is that the there are two main factors why your healthcare is so expensive - high salaries and high fees. In other words, just your ‘market’ working to cater for the well off.
See:
Posted 22 Apr 2008 at 8:45 am ¶Health Spending In The United States And The Rest Of The Industrialized World
Gerard F. Anderson, Peter S. Hussey, Bianca K. Frogner, and Hugh R. Waters
Health Affairs (2005) vol 24 no 4
Slightly off-topic, but speaking of Obama David, did you see that Michael Moore endorsed him yesterday?
Makes sense given their mutual love for government run health care.
Sheesh.
Posted 22 Apr 2008 at 8:46 am ¶b taylor said “Michelle is a wonderful woman. She and Barack are what this country needs.”
Michelle is a sanctimonious human being. She is the acme of liberalism. If she were a white male, she’d be banned from our polite (liberal) society as a bigot, due to her racial polarizing views.
Posted 22 Apr 2008 at 12:08 pm ¶Again, those who are lossing the race will try to twist anything of the opponents to match thier distorted view. Hospital emergency rooms across this country are being overwhelmed by uninsured for minor, routine complaints. No hospital in this country can, by law , turn away a patient. All who enter the ER lobby have to be seen and asscessed by an RN, then seen and diagnosed by a MD or PA, then treated and stabilized before discharge or transfer. This is the universal standard across this country.
Posted 22 Oct 2008 at 1:12 pm ¶What Mrs. Obama is doing is starting a common program to assist those without insurance to visit a local clinic or Dr.s office for non emergency complaints. What she is trying to do is to steer the colds, stomach viruses away from the ER so after your heart attack or auto injury, you will be seen in less than 15-30 min.s, not 6-8 hours.
I can accept different points of view, however i can’t stand mean spirited ignorance of an issue.
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