Health & Medicine (HMPRG)

HMPRG's Janna Stansell's Broadcast Comments/Analysis on the Charity Care Issue

 

Janna Stansell Policy Analyst at HMPRG sheds light on the Charity Care and Tax Issue on NBC Chicago:

http://www.nbcchicago.com/shows/nonstop/The_Talk__Hospitals_Under_Fire_Chicago-128088458.html

Other other broadcast commentary and analysis from some of our partners:

•  Chicago Tonight ch. 11 WTTW http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2011/08/17/analysis-hospital-tax
  
•  NBC 5 http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/health/hospital-tax-exemption-127971108.html

 

 

Quentin Young's Press TV Interview on Charity Care

Press TV, June 9, 2011

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Not-for-profit hospitals unfairly receiving tax exemptions

By Dr. Quentin Young

In this era of tight public funds afflicting virtually every state in the nation, there is one revenue source that has been all but neglected in the public debate: the subsidy of "not for profit" private hospitals by exemption from sales and property taxes being the typical form.

This has been reexamined by the remarkable Illinois Supreme Court decision in the Provena Covenant case: the court ruled that the Provena hospital group failed to meet the charitable health care provision required to enjoy the property and sales tax freedom they had enjoyed.

Illinois law requires nonprofit hospitals to provide charity care (free or reduced care) which eases the financial toll on government -- and nothing less -- to qualify for property tax exemption. When nonprofit hospitals fail to provide charity, some poor, uninsured, and underinsured patients find themselves in public hospitals funded by public dollars and stretched beyond capacity. This failure to meet legal requirements results in the loss of tens of billions of tax dollars across the nation at a time of great national need.

Other patients afraid to incur debt they can't repay, delay their medical treatment, adding to its eventual cost and jeopardizing their health outcomes if not their lives.

In the current recession, budgets at every level of government are strained and people are in peril. The Illinois Supreme Court has decided that non profit hospitals must deploy the public funds they are given to support the public health safety net both the poor and the taxpaying public deserve.

Dr. Quentin Young is the chairman of the Health & Medicine Policy Research Group. He spoke to Press TV's U.S. Desk on Wednesday about his article.

Illinois Public Health Advocate, Quentin Young - ABC 7 Newsviews Interview

Quentin Young, The Illinois Public Health Advocate (and Health & Medicine's Founder and Chairman) was featured on Newsviews, ABC News Chicago, Channel 7, on February 21, 2020 - where he was interviewed by anchor Alan Krashesky about his role, in particular, and the health of the public, in general. View the interview through the web link:  http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=7290827

Chicago-Area Author Appearances: “The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger”

Richard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus, University of Nottingham Medical School, and Honorary Professor, University College London; Kate Pickett, Professor of Epidemiology, University of York, and U.K. National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist

Epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett are authors of The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (Bloomsbury USA, 2009). In this book, Wilkinson and Pickett examine how large gaps in income inequality create significant problems within societies. Using as examples countries such as Britain and the United States, with between-state comparisons for the U.S., they explain how inequality causes a range of problems, including low life expectancy, illiteracy, stress, and high crime rates. Wilkinson has played a formative role in international research in the social determinants of health and conducted groundbreaking research on the impact of inequality on health. Pickett has also conducted wide-ranging research on the social determinants of health, with a particular focus on the health of mothers and children. Over several years, Wilkinson and Pickett have collaborated on more than a dozen research papers, synthesized in The Spirit Level.

Chicago-Area Event Information:

• Monday January 11th, University of Chicago, 12:00 p.m., Billings Hospital, L-168, 5841 S. Maryland Ave. Chicago

• Tuesday January 12th, Northwestern University, 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center 633 Clark Street, Evanston Campus, The Center on Social Disparities and Health, INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH • NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY and the Department of Medical Social Sciences. For more information, visit us on the Web or contact Patricia Lasley at 847-467-6905 or by email

• Wednesday January 13th, University of Illinois, Chicago, Noon–1 p.m., Molecular Biology Research Bldg. Auditorium, 900 S. Ashland Ave. , Chicago (Enter from Marshfield), Sponsored by the UIC Institute for Health Research and Policy. Barbara’s Bookstore will be selling The Spirit Level before and after the lecture. The authors will sign copies of the book following their discussion. Email to reserve a book to purchase 

Can’t make it? Listen to Kate Pickett’s interview on Canada’s The Sunday Edition

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Chicagoans, Tune into CAN-TV for Provocative Dialogue on Health Care Reform

The ARC09 Forum held September 19, 2009 at Access Living: The Fierce Urgency of Now- HealthCare and Human Rights with Dr. Linda Murray and V.J. Prashad will air on Sunday October, 18th 1 PM on CAN TV, Channel 21.  Revisit the speaker list and the forum "framing"

The forum hosted by Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows on September 22, 2009 at UIC: Health Reform: Successes and Failures from Varying View Points, will air Tuesday, October 13th, 9:30 AM on CAN-TV Channel 19 and Tuesday, October 20th, 12:30 PM, on CAN TV Channel 21. Revisit the speaker list for that forum

View David Scheiner on Chicago Tonight with Phil Ponce

President Obama's personal physician for more than 20 years tells Chicago Tonight's Phil Ponce why he's critical of his former patient's proposal to change the way the nation provides health care.

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Check Out Bill Moyers interview with Wendell Potter, former head of PR at CIGNA

Check out Bill Moyers' July 10 interview with Wendell Potter, former head of Public Relations for CIGNA on PBS (From the PBS site: "...With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform."