Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, Assistant Majority Leader, on Face the Nation on Sunday morning touting the health care bill:The bill will be making sure we have more health care clinics across America to keep people out of emergency rooms and give them basic care. There.  He said it out loud in plain language.  Driven by profit margins, hospitals across the country can now circumvent the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) and turn people away from emergency rooms in order to bolster the medical facilities' bottom line.Michelle Obama and David Axelrod pulled this same trick in Chicago when she was vice president of the University of Chicago Medical Center.  David Catron of AT wrote an expose on the patient dumping scheme in March 2009.  But no amount of journalistic lipstick can hide the reality that Mrs. Obama's initiative is a patient-dumping scheme. Such "cherry-picking," as Dr. Jouriles accurately describes it, was, at one time, fairly...(Read Full Post)