Article: Closing of MedStar Unit Threatened;Hospital Center Besieged by Uninsured Victims of Violence

Drug-related violence is sending so many uninsured patients to the Washington Hospital Center's MedStar trauma unit that hospital officials say they "will seriously consider" closing it unless the District government takes steps to ease the hospital's growing financial loss.

The warning reflects rising anxiety at some city hospitals over the burden of treating uninsured patients of all kinds, and comes as the D.C. Council is considering two bills that would provide health insurance to the more than 100,000 District residents who reportedly do not have it.

MedStar, one of the city's busiest trauma units, dispensed $22 million in uncompensated medical care in the fiscal year ending June 30, ...

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