Keep it up guys, it's apparently your goal to write a negative front page story on the Obama campaign every day from now until November ["U. of C. shunning poor patients?" Aug. 23]. As a health care professional since 1973, what the U. of C. Hospital is doing with this program makes perfectly good sense from several standpoints. Many of these patients who come to the hospital ER aren't really emergency and clog up the ER and delay the treatment of people with true emergencies.
They also can be seen and treated more quickly and far more cost effectively in ambulatory settings, such as where these patients are being directed to -- or in less busy ERs. Treating them at a place such as the U. of C. is particularly inefficient because university-affiliated tertiary care centers like them have far higher amounts of institutional overhead built in to their charges for all of their care, including ER visits.
Ralph "Cash" Beardsley, Darien
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