The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, in connection with the O'Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University are producing an enlightening series of stories about how health care systems are pulling out of poor city neighborhoods where the sickest populations live, and opting to build facilities in affluent communities. These stories are noteworthy examples to elected officials of why ALL of these "nonprofit" hospitals should lose their nonprofit status and be treated like any other for profit entity, and why it is in the best interest of every American to contact their elected officials and raise holy hell about this issue.
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