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Michelle Obama — currently on unpaid leave from her $317,000-a-year job as a vice president of the prestigious hospital — helped create the program, which aims to find neighborhood doctors for low-income people who were flooding the emergency room for basic treatment. Hospital officials say such patients hinder their ability to focus on more critically ill patients in need of specialized care, such as cancer treatment and organ transplants.
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Sorry, I don’t see the problem. The ER is the most expensive place to seek medical attention. Redirecting non-emergency patients to other facilities makes sense.
Are patients being singled out based on race? That’s a grey area that’s hard to determine right away.
