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                                              Table of Contents

A.  Introduction…………………………………………………………………………...............1

B.  National Capitalism……………………………………………………………………..........1

         How the Nation’s economic system can be injurious to your health.

C.  Healthcare Fraud – A Brief Survey…………………………………………………….........3

         36 examples of the depth and extent of fraud in the healthcare system.

D.  First, Do No Harm……………………………………………………………………............4

         Opening thoughts about fraud and its relationship to patient injury
         and death.

E.  By What Right?....................................................................................................................5

         How fraud at one of the Nation’s premier medical institutions placed
         the health of the Harlem community at risk.  And how it was covered up.

F.  A Vulnerable Population………………………………………………………………............8

          How the same unregulated institution placed pregnant mothers and
          newborns at risk,  and the steps they took to hide their fraud.

G.  The Hospital’s Motive?.......................................................................................................10

          A speculation, considering the vast amounts of money made by the
          executive staff of the institution,  on why it has to resort to fraud.

H.  Taking From the Children……………………………………………………………...........13

          The risk an honest doctor faces when exposing fraud.

I.  The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey………………………………......14

          The Nation’s largest hospital system, riddled with crime.

J.   The Great Hospital Heist…………………………………………………….........................17

          A final example of how hospitals bilk the public.

K.   Public Relations………………………………………………………………………............18

          Comments on how organized medicine has attempted to convince the
          public that it can get its house in order.

L.  Let’s Get Real………………………………………………………………………….............22

           Medical Crime

M.   Regulatory Reform…………………………………………………………………..............25

           American healthcare – essentially unregulated.

 

N.   Finance Reform……………………………………………………………………….............27

           Why a “Single Payer” is desperately needed.

O.  The People, Yes?..................................................................................................................28

           A question mark hangs over our Nation’s  future.