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The aim of such empire building is to maintain a flow of patients to the teaching hospital. His health-insurance company initially tried to talk Daniel Vonk, a teacher from Fernandina Beach, Florida, out of going to the Mayo branch in Jacksonville because its fees were so high. Vonk went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHING HOSPITALS IN CRISIS | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

As spotty as the indigent-defense system is, however, middle-income defendants who don't qualify for court-appointed counsel (the standards vary from state to state) can sometimes end up worse off than the poor. Carolyn Rader, a defense attorney in Indianapolis, says it is common for such clients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RICH JUSTICE, POOR JUSTICE | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

Wrong. but at least he doesn't have to pay for another trial. Earlier this year, Indianapolis lawyer Rader represented a disabled factory worker in his 50s who had been charged with raping an eight-year-old girl. His household income was about $25,000 a year, and his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RICH JUSTICE, POOR JUSTICE | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

"In a murder case, practically every defendant is indigent," says Larry Hammond, a criminal lawyer in Phoenix, Arizona. "They may not have started that way, but for anyone other than the super-rich, they will be indigent before the case is over."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RICH JUSTICE, POOR JUSTICE | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

The Legal Services Corporation is the civil side of indigent legal assistance. It is the lawyer of last resort for poor people with family, housing, consumer or entitlement problems. But it has long been a target of conservatives. Senator Phil Gramm has called for LSC's possible abolition, although he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL ASSISTANCE MAY END TOO | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

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