7/01/2004

Paul Bass examines what's changed at Yale - New Haven Hospital - and what hasn't: Lucretia Faulk remembers reading articles about Yale-New Haven Hospital's vicious tactics against poor people who got sick and couldn't pay their bills. Now that a stroke has left her blind, Faulk doesn't read the papers anymore. But Faulk, who's unemployed and uninsured, knows that the hospital will sometimes still sic lawyers on low-income patients rather than steer them to the hospital's charitable funds. She knows this because it happened to her. Yale-New Haven has sued her for the $25,862.91 she couldn't pay for her hospital stay after the stroke. She's one of dozens of patients the hospital's outside lawyers have sued this year, according to state judicial records.

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