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Remember, most hospitals accept our tax money (Medicare,
etc.) and claim to be non-profits qualifying for a tax-deduction: De facto, they are public utilities averaging
~5% profit according to the Wall Street Journal, but they are allowed to pay no taxes. The question naturally
arises why our hospitals spend 31.4% on administration, while hospitals in Canada spend 14%. This is not to say we should
adopt Canadian medicine, only that we want to know how accountable to the public American hospitals are. You have
a choice of hospitals. Are your hospitals clean, friendly, kind, responsive: When you push the button to call for help, what happens? How much of
your hospital's money pays administrators?
Click here to look up how any hospital's Board spends your tax money: www.Guidestar.org.
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The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of
1986 permits any hospital board to ignore due process as stated in the Constitution; the United
States Supreme Court has twice refused to rule in this matter (SHALLER, POLINER). Without due process, medical
practice is unsafe for patient and doctor. Doctors can lose their career-investment before paying
back their career-loans: The risk of choosing MD over JD or MBA is too great. The
doctor-shortage is predicted to reach 200,000 by 2020.
"Our
government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime
is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy." Louis Brandeis, United
States Supreme Court
"The failure to change
and improve the current system will continue to result in the loss of qualified and skilled physicians from their profession
due to others who maliciously pervert the current peer review process for their own selfish motives." Hall
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