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The Least of Michelle's Brothers Get the Door

Barack Obama says we have "an obligation" to fix the current health-care system. In his plan, "no American will be turned away." Michelle Obama disagrees. While an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center, she developed the hospital's Urban Health Initiative, a program to refer patients without private insurance to other health-care facilities in their neighborhood. Those shown the door tend to be poor minorities, mostly blacks.

In order to sell the program to the community, the hospital hired ASK Public Strategies, co-owned by David Axelrod, a top aide to the Obama campaign. The recommendation to hire Axelrod's firm was made by Obama's wife and by his advisor, Valerie Jarrett, ...

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