"Barbara O’Brien’s wide-ranging account of Zen history is conveyed with a master storyteller’s ability to keep the forest from getting lost in a myriad of trees. Wearing her scholarship lightly, she blends just the right amount of skepticism about her hagiographic sources with a deep appreciation for the Dharma." — Barry Magid, author of
Nothing Is Hidden and
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness Order here!
If we were Japan, he’d be a “Living National Treasure” and revered. The truth is powerful.
Related to robbing the poor, see Zandar today for his article on the Kansas Republican plan to lower taxes on the rich and raise them on the poor.
How can anyone top that?
Accreda – seems to me like it’s the Blackwater of health care collectors.
Whether you flat-line or not doesn’t matter.
It’s your bottom line that counts.
Disgusting.
How low can a company stoop?
We see new lows every day…
My daughter is currently working towards a degree in health care management;
her professors are convinced that our system is impossibly broken
Everything from education, health care, the military (industrial complex), and incarceration is now profit driven.
I urge everyone to google “Paul Stamets TedMed 2011”, and watch the presentation.
Um, isn’t asking for money up front in the ER a violation of EMTALA? At least, that’s how we’ve been trained in the ER where I work about EMTALA. There should be some major lawsuits happening over this…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act
Yes, as I thought:
Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) is calling for a full-scale investigation into the reportedly questionable debt collection practices of a company accused of harassing patients in emergency rooms into paying their bills.
Stark requested that if the practices of Accretive Health — a company hired by hospitals to collect payments for medical care — are found to violate the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), the federal government should issue a bulletin to hospitals informing them about the illegality of the behavior and of possible enforcement actions.
Stark said that if aggressive debt collectors are demanding payment from patients before they receive care in an emergency room, it may be a violation of EMTALA, the law that requires hospitals to provide care regardless of a patient’s ability to pay…
MORE HERE:
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Washington-Watch/Washington-Watch/32432