Congress' Phony Health Care War
Against The Current vol. 82
The Editors
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/909
Date Written: 1999-09-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 1999
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX12909
One hundred thousand people in the United States of America lose their health insurance every month. It seems unlikely, however, that this number included the president of Columbia/HCA, the industry leader in for-profit health care, who, as reported in the August 5 New England Journal of Medicine, "resigned in the face of federal fraud investigations ... with a $10 million severance package and $269 million in company stock."