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...physician-investor admit patients in their wards. And powerful health systems often use their leverage to lock physician-owned competitors out of preferred networks of insurers. Via Christi owns Kansas' largest managed-care plan; Wesley has an exclusive contract in Wichita with the state's leading insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield. "It's brutal competition," says David Laird, CEO of the Heart Hospital of Austin, which competes with the Texas nonprofit Seton Medical Center. "They act like they have a halo over their heads...
...Most notably, executives of HMO Blue Cross Blue Shield donated over $6,000 to the Coakley committee days before her election win. In the past, criticism has been heaped on Reilly for accepting donations from this same healthcare provider while simultaneously having business dealings with it. To provide another example, within months of being fined $1 million by Reilly for misleading business practices, Comcast executives and lobbyists unloaded over $3+,000 into Coakley’s warchest...
...even if Coakley is unscrupulously fair-minded as Attorney General, Massachusetts citizens will inherently be suspicious of the financing she received from companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield during campaign season. This is more an indictment of the Massachusetts system of electing its Attorney General than it is a critique of Coakley. After all, it would be unprecedented among Massachusetts Attorney Generals for her to eschew such funding before being sworn in. While she may have been in a perfect position to set an example, having had no legitimate opposition to campaign against and therefore less necessity for funding, this...
...international development, drew hundreds of students on Friday. The event—organized by IMPACT, a Harvard group dedicated to raising funds for grassroots projects in developing countries and cosponsored by the Boston Network for International Development—featured representatives from 17 different organizations, including the American Red Cross and the U.S. State Department. IMPACT co-director, Anna E. Fogel ’07, said that she was excited about the success of the event and praised the Harvard students who organized it. “The turnout was great,” she said...
...Although Cross could not compete, she still made the trip to New York and mentored the freshmen as they entered their first major collegiate tournament...