[Imc-summaries] Carle Still Dumping Patients

[imc-tech at urbana.indymedia.org]

Carle Foundation Hospital is among 527 hospitals violating the federal patient dumping law. While the law has been in effect since 1986, weak enforcement has meant that hospitals continue to find it more profitable to break the law than obey it. Patient rights laws are only as good as the enforcement actions behind them. It seems that the federal government has made these violations a low enforcement priority.

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