[Peace-discuss] unedited letter

[Morton K. Brussel]

Yes, that was a good and useful letter, Ricky. Thanks for writing it.

It has been remarked that the health care business in this land is  
more interested in the business than in health.

Mort

On Feb 20, 2008, at 8:50 PM, Ricky Baldwin wrote:

> OK, maybe it's just because it's my letter, but I think the  
> original (below) was
> stronger before the News-Gazette editors got hold of it:
>
> Dear Editor:
>
> The state conspiracy charges against Carle and Christie clinics  
> have brought to light
> some shocking realities about access to healthcare in Champaign  
> County, but the
> News-Gazette seems to prefer to dodge these substantive issues.   
> And reading the facts
> presented by the State Attorney General, which the clinics have not  
> disputed, it is
> clear that a terrible crime has been committed.
>
> When these clinics turn away newborn babies and others with serious  
> medical conditions,
> not even because they can’t pay, but because the money they pay is  
> coming from our
> government, and because the beancounters are holding out for more  
> money from the State,
> that’s a humanitarian crisis.  Carle and Christie together control  
> 90 percent of
> doctors in this county.  Conspiring together they represent a near  
> monopoly, exactly
> the kind of thing antitrust laws are made to prevent.
>
> And these businesses are not hurting, as expansions demonstrate.   
> They make money hand
> over fist while picking and choosing which of the local sick and  
> dying are worthy of
> care.  This specific case, regardless of any technicalities and  
> delays, is about two
> major subsidized businesses trying to extort more money from  
> taxpayers by obstructing
> basic healthcare needs.
>
> But rather than explore these issues, or the specific cases of  
> abuse cited in the
> lawsuit, the News-Gazette chose to push a political agenda in its  
> January 30 editorial
> and attack the Attorney General for filing the case.  Surely this  
> is missing the point.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ricky Baldwin
>
>
>
>
>
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