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.
7/01/2004
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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