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Category Archives: Hospital BS

GRASSLEY SEEKS MRS. OBAMA’S RECORDS

Last week I did a post on the patient-dumping scheme designed by Michelle Obama for the University of Chicago Medical Center.  Poor patients, it seems, are not as welcome there as those with good insurance. 
Well, it would appear that the corrupt stench emanating from UCMC has finally reached the ample proboscis of Senator Charles Grassley. Per the Washington Post:
Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa on Friday […]

Posted 03 September 2008 † Catron § Obama BS ‡ Comments (2)

MICHELLE OBAMA WORKS AT A HOSPITAL?

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 […]

Posted 21 April 2008 † Catron § Political BS ‡ Comments (7)

REGARDING THE HOSPITAL “BUILDING BOOM”

One of the reasons I find it so difficult to take “progressive” policy wonks seriously on health care reform is that they seem utterly incapable of honest and informed analysis. A typical manifestation of that intellectual handicap can be found in this post by Maggie Mahar, which begins with a misleading conflation of disparate data:
A combination of spending on new construction and hi-tech equipment pushed the nation’s hospital […]

Posted 10 April 2008 † Catron § Cost BS § Progressive BS ‡ Comments (6)

HOSPITALS MAKING BIG PROFITS? PURE BS!

The folks at the WSJ Health Blog have produced a post that can only be described as pure, unadulterated BS. Using figures from the most prosperous 1% of nonprofit hospitals, they make the following generalization:
There’s big money in health care, even for institutions that aren’t chartered to make a profit.
Here’s a chart (from the AHA) showing the “big money” that American […]

Posted 04 April 2008 † Catron § Journalistic BS ‡ Comments (1)