Rahm Running for Minnesota Office?
- [Minnesota] Attorney General Lori Swanson is vowing to press on with her investigation of Accretive Health despite the mayor of Chicago asking her to rein it in until she's met executives to discuss concerns about its collection practices.
What possible interest could Rahm have with a Minnesota criminal investigation?
- In April, Swanson released the results of her investigation of Accretive Health's relationship with the Fairview health system, saying the parties had engaged in overly aggressive billing tactics that included pressuring patients for payment in emergency rooms and maternity wards.
"I request that the parties cease efforts to publicly prosecute this matter and rather try to resolve the matter privately," wrote Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, in a letter to Swanson released Tuesday. "Please confirm to me that this is the path we are on and let me know the date for which the meeting is scheduled."
Emanuel asked that Swanson back off from interviewing Accretive's clients until that meeting, according to the undated letter. His letter stated that he and Swanson discussed the matter by phone last week, and opened by noting that both Democrats share the goal of making health care affordable.
Wow. Something stinks here. Stinks badly. Is Rahm an investor in Accretive? Is there some other connection to the ObamaCare bill that Accretive is enmeshed in? To her credit, the Minnesota Attorney General isn't being cowed:
- "We will continue to interview witnesses and perform our law enforcement responsibilities over charitable hospitals in Minnesota," Swanson said.
Accretive Health has "retained or contacted numerous heavyweights in the national Democratic Party," Swanson added.
"It has now contacted Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago," she said. "This is a law enforcement matter. Unfortunately, Accretive appears to address it as a political one."
Too bad there aren't any investigative reporters around anymore. We imagine they could have some fun with this one.
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posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
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I hope she told him to fuck off.
Wouldn't it be nice if he got caught up in some shit and he was forced out??!!! AAhhh, it's always fun to dream.
If anyone were connected with a company that intimidates sick people in hospital beds, it'd be a bastard like Emanuel.
He's talking about raising the property tax here by 150%.
I doubt that the main stream media goes anywhere near it. Election time is right around the corner and the media needs to get their hands on as much of those "campaign contribution dollars" used for advertising as possible.
Three Cheers for Minn. AG Lori Swanson !!!!!
If racoon eyes is sticking his nose where it doesn't belong, please bitch slap the little turd who calls himself mayor of Chicago.
Stand Tall AG Swanson (which isn't hard standing next to that little twerp emanuel). !! Stick it to those democrooks !!!!!!! they've been getting away with murder for wayyyyyy toooo looong !!!
As long as that little f*cker promises to move to Minnesota, he has my vote! Hell, I'll even help load all the boxes on the moving van.
Are we even allowed to comment on his action? If we comment are we disobeying department policy?
America
I suspect that some major investors in that health care company are connected to Rahm, and they're pressuring him to slow down the investigation,
until some sort of deal can be made to save
the company. Who knows, Rahm or his brother
could wind up being exposed as major investors
themselves.
What is he doing trying to obstruct justice? What happened to the law is the law and we must respect the law?
That only applies to demonstrators violating a misdemeanor park curfew and not corporate friends?
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Tolan’s Way
By: Steven R. Strahler
March 03, 2008
Accretive Health, a $250-million Chicago company built from
scratch in four years, counts on a glitzy board that includes
former Secretary of State George Shultz and Hollywood
mogul Edgar Bronfman Jr.
But the real force behind the company is CEO Mary Tolan,
who grew up in Palos Heights, the first of seven kids of a
milk distributor and an EKG technician.
After a two-decade climb at Accenture Ltd., the 47-year-old
Ms. Tolan made herself one of Chicago's most successful, if
least well-known, entrepreneurs.
"My objective is just to be a happy, confident capitalist," says
the devotee of Ayn Rand's and Milton Friedman's free-market gospel, which she applies with a combative, survival-of-the fittest management style.
"She can be demanding, challenging and kick your ass
pretty good sometimes," says Rich Gillette, an Accretive vice-president.
Accretive, which helps hospitals boost revenues by qualifying more patients for insurance
reimbursements, is growing 50% annually and could go public as soon as next year. Headquartered
on Michigan Avenue with about 350 staffers, it's scouting the area for a place to put a 500-employee
claims-processing center.
more >> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:EuHsZJO_i0MJ:www.chicagobooth.edu/entrepreneurship/docs/Crains-TolansWay-Accretive.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgU5AK_H1zx4YtL7PXHLNsSUdnhDLHS3RJSoOS8c6j9ps4Ey9Xq6ftqmYnACEdChUx_i558CN-PB3r4EVf94wER242isbrFXy3Bj5QuKMbK2Eh7JFP8v1q8wamfSVvNLyC8tETs&sig=AHIEtbRM-AvZv-SIQVo4Z5_c16Kg-Eqqdg
Oh how they are glorified in corporate propaganda eh. They should be so proud.
So how come the mayor wants everyone to sit down and shut up?
Meanwhile expectant mothers are allegedly being harassed in hospital emergency rooms by the collection agencies?
Ahh but look at that board. Hollywood and politicians. No wonder healthcare cost are exploding and nothing is being addressed to open the free-markets.
NEW YORK, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a national law firm concentrating on investor rights, consumer rights and enforcement of federal antitrust laws, is investigating potential wrongdoing at Accretive Health, Inc. ("Accretive Health" or the "Company") (AH). The investigation focuses on whether certain officers and directors of Accretive Health breached their fiduciary duties by failing to provide appropriate safeguards to prevent the misuse or disclosure of confidential and protected health information and by causing the Company to engage in unlawful debt collection practices in hospital emergency rooms.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/faruqi-faruqi-llp-investigating-accretive-210000758.html
Ryan & Maniskas, LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Accretive Health, Inc.
"... On March 29, 2012, Accretive Health revealed that, in response to a lawsuit filed by Minnesota Attorney General ("AG"), the Company had agreed to no longer collect debts on behalf of Fairview Health Services. On this news, Accretive shares declined $4.46 per share or 18.5%, to close at $19.60 per share on March 29, 2012.
On April 24, 2012, the Minnesota AG released a six-volume report detailing Accretive Health's aggressive debt collection practices, including demanding payment from patients who were currently seeking medical care in hospitals. The next day, an article published by The New York Times discussed the Minnesota AG's report. On these revelations, Accretive Health shares declined $7.74 per share or nearly 42%, to close at $10.75 per share on April 25, 2012. ..."
more >> http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ryan-maniskas-llp-announces-class-231600218.html
Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Accretive Health, Inc.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/glancy-binkow-goldberg-llp-announces-004500639.html
A similar practice has started in at least one hospital in Chicago. Recently a close relative was taken to Resurrection Hospital for stomach pains. The relative had a burst appendix, emergency surgery occurred. Five days later the relative is released. Yhree days later, back to the emergency room with more pain. While waiting for preliminary tests a middle age woman approches the relative and the person with the insurance and demands a $100 payment. She even had a credit card reader in her hand. She was aked why no such payment was demanded for the first trip to the ER, her response, " Just pay your bill....NOW" I will be on deaths door before I go there!
HOW DARE YOU!
Keep your corrupt Chicago politics out of Minnesota, Emanuel. You ARE "the fox guarding the chicken coop".
Having observed both political scenes (Chicago and The Twinn Cities), I think this is an intriguing intersection of the two milieus. Swashbuckling, sanctimonious AG Swanson colliding with Cloutmeister 9.5. The AG will roll on- it would be political suicide in the Twin Cities to give in to The Chicago Way. What's hilarious is that Political Animal 9.5 seems to be oblivious to this political reality and majorly miscalculated by sending her that letter.
- An Observer
"My objective is just to be a happy, confident capitalist," says
the devotee of Ayn Rand's [aka Alice Rosenbaum] and Milton Friedman's free-market gospel, which she applies with a combative, survival-of-the fittest management style.
"She can be demanding, challenging and kick your ass pretty good sometimes," says Rich Gillette, an Accretive vice-president.
"Oh how they are glorified in corporate propaganda..."
--5/09/2012 01:41:00 AM
My reading shows me that people in top corporate positions score higher than mental patients for things like "lack of empathy with others," "grandiosity," "narcissism," etc.
Withal, exactly the sort of person you'd find in the golf cart with Rahm "Exalted" Emanuel, or "Moscow Andy" Thayer, who, from a great height, "grudgingly accepted" FREE use of the Petrillo Bandshell, WITHOUT ANY INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS.
"Let Baby do whatever Baby wants, or Baby will sue," is the Occupy proposition put before us -- hell, not daily, but thirty, forty times per day.
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"Accretive's" stock value plummeted by nearly half -- this is a BIG story, the kind of dirt you always wanted to explode around Mayor Daley, but it never quite did.
Someone at Crain's Chicago Business is suggesting that CEO Mary Tolan should resign. She doesn't seem at all like the type. Good.
Fight like hell, lady. Let this blow up until the whole world knows about it.
Would it be too much to suggest that Mayor Rahm Emanuel also should resign?
Wake up dead tree media!!! Accretive Health lists it's head quarters as 401 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 2700. Why would Rahm want to "Hug it out", as his brother would say, with a corporate bully when Rahm is known to have such a bad temper. Wake up Media, the answers are right here. Accretive Health board of Directors is full of Chicago clout or at least one can assume by their position.
Mary A. Tolan, a founder of Accretive Health, has served as our president and chief executive officer and a director since November 2003.She serves on the board of trustees of the University of Chicago, Loyola University and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Steven N. Kaplan has been a member of our board of directors since July 2004. Since 1988, Mr. Kaplan has served as a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he currently is the Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and serves as the faculty director of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship.
Stanley N. Logan has been a member of our board of directors since April 2011. Mr. Logan is partner and chief operating officer of Sikich LLP, a management consulting firm.Mr. Logan served on the boards of directors of The Field Museum, where he served as a member of its finance committee, and Ravinia Festival Association, where he served as a member of its audit committee.
George P. Shultz is Director Emeritus of our company. Mr. Shultz has had a distinguished career in government, academia and business.He then taught from 1957 to 1969 at Stanford University and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, where he also served as Dean for six years.
9 BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THREE THAT HAVE CHICAGO TIES TO INCLUDE THE DIRECTOR EMERITUS.
"Accenture." "Accretive." All these meaningless computer-generated names.
"Acc..t..e."
The program flies along, stringing together syllables like crazy until you see something you like.
They came up with a winner here.
"Accretive" sounds like something unpleasant that --
A. Drips
B. Builds up and hardens
C. Has to be scraped off periodically
Another one of these outfits hired ex-convicts to do phone collections -- I heard tapes of them cursing at people, the vilest sexual references and insults to the family imaginable and then some.
I would say that if you or a family member is assailed in the hospital by one of these people, call the police and have them removed from the room. Just because a hospital is a fancy building doesn't mean that it operates under its own laws.
Hospitals are running a terrible liability risk for allowing such abusive practices.
God bless the Minnesota AG. Keep up the good work.
"What happened to the law is the law and we must respect the law?"
--5/09/2012 02:12:00 AM
Iterate, iterate, iterate. Tak tak tak tak tak, like a God-damned sewing machine. Complete hysteric.
Shut up, Andy.
"That only applies to demonstrators violating a misdemeanor park curfew and not corporate friends?"
It applies to wild mobs fighting police in the streets, attacking public and other buildings, sabotaging emergency vehicles, producing biologcal agents, and doing millions of dollars worth of damage as well.
What's in it for Rahm?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. This nation is doomed by greed.
"As long as that little f*cker promises to move to Minnesota, he has my vote! Hell, I'll even help load all the boxes on the moving van."
--5/09/2012 12:15:00 AM
Thanks, but the Mayor only uses "GOLAN MOVERS."
They can be contacted easily through any "art student" selling paintings near government buildings, or any "toy helicopter salesman" you see at a shopping mall. (I've seen them myself at Harlem/Irving Plaza, set up right in the entrance lobby.)
Am I right? Huh?
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Such a business!
Anonymous said...
Are we even allowed to comment on his action? If we comment are we disobeying department policy?
America
5/09/2012 12:30:00 AM
We are not to make comments about specific sworn members who still work for the Department. Rahm Emanuel is not a sworn member of the CPD.
We are not to make comments that bring discredit to the Department. Critizing the unethical and possibly illegal conduct of the mayor not only does NOT bring discredit to the Department ... if anything, it ADDS to its credibility, that honorable, upright men and women who believe in right and wrong, who wear the CPD uniform, are not afraid to exercise their First Amendment Right, which is a much higher legal authority than G.O. 09-01-06.
Further, there are many U.S. Supreme Court decisions stating that public employees have "whistleblower" rights, and have every right, if not moral duty, to speak out when they are aware of public corruption. What Rahm Emanuel is doing in this case, putting pressure on the Minnesota A.G. to stop her investigation into the tactics of Accretive Health, is a VERY SERIOUS act of public corruption: using his power and influence, immorally and unethically, to quash a very legitimate criminal investigation, because of his personal ties to Accretive.
Hmmm maybe an Obstruction charge could create some interesting news.....
I still am trying to figure out why this coruppt POS wanted to be Mayor in the first place.
Rahm is buddies with the private equity guys that bought Accretive.
Lets understand rahmbo was with barry obama, think maybe just maybe he dipped into this? the thief will destroy our hevily member contributed pension plan,and then move on to take away benefits. Wonder how much the alderthieves gave up? Most did not even give up the requested few days pay they are entitled part time job big time pay and benefits,casper the ghost was there more than these ghosts! We can hope and pray that when barry loses the republicans let Pat Fitzgerald unshackled and hope he runs all over city hall/county/state it is about time!
Looks like rahmulus is trying to strong arm the minnesota AG to drop its lawsuit against a ayn rand inspired chicago company...hmmmm. Same when the feds stopped tape when rahm was putting some pressure on blago's choice for O'bama's replacement. Republican Wisconsin Senator Ryan, an ayn rand devotee, trying to desolve social security, collective bargaining for workers, wasnt he and his cabal just visited by rahm about a month ago in a closed meeting. People wake up! The middle working class is under attack from both the democrats and republicans, by punks, like ryan, kantor, rahm, cross, madigan, and many more políticos whose pensions are shored up and whom will recieve paid medical on the backs of taxpaying workers. We must hold their feet to the fire. The hell with worrying about gay marriage, illegal immigration, the goverment has been full of shit, NAFTA, has left the borders with no fences, open unmanned parts, where people trickle in with out no problems, the border patrols, whenever they try to do their jobs, are prosecuted and jailed. Start looking at your leaders. Rahm, a do nothing/know nothing, powered by hollywood, northshore monies, used as the aggressive chihuahua to make sure his benefactors get paid, with our money. Obama, a do nothing senator, now POTUS, BushII, a do nothing/know nothing, voted governor/POTUS. Taxpayers, the next 4 generations on the hook for 2 wars, bailouts of banks, savings and loans, we are still paying the first bailout by Bush I, and wallstreet. The use of social security to balance budgets and to payout entitlements to drug addicted/ lazy assholes and their children.Outsourcing, unpayable student loans, because college graduates cant find employment or jobs that pay a sustainable wage. Both republicans and democrats are at fault. We have let políticos ruin our livelihood, because of distractions and our inate prejudices. The economy and the fairness of distribution of wealth should be on the top of the list. I dont want a link card, section 8, wic, ssi, if im not disabled. I want the modest pension i paid into for 22 years. Affordable health care, where i dont have rahm's buddy in the emergency room strong arming me. My property taxes to be fair, not calculated by a ambigous multiplier and not siphoned to some TIF. Where the mayor doesnt have to pay the cities pension contracts, but pay contracts to walsh, heneghan, mchugh, or subsidize billionaire hotel magnates. Seems like their is no distinction between a democrat or republican when it comes to screwing the middleclass over. We created this mess by not voting these assholes out when we have a chance. November can be our chance to finally make government work for ALL of Us. End of rant. G-d bless and stay safe.
More of that Chicago transparency !
"We will continue to interview witnesses and perform our law enforcement responsibilities over charitable hospitals in Minnesota," Swanson said.
"[Accretive] has now contacted Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago," she said. "This is a law enforcement matter. Unfortunately, Accretive appears to address it as a political one."
God damn. Someone who's not "in the loop" -- someone who stands their ground and does their job.
We're so unused to that here. I mean, look at what we've got -- Emanuel.
(For NYPD pals -- we see him as "Bloomberg West." Right out of the same obnoxious mold.)
Hope this blows up uncontrollably. It's what Daley deserves and -- so far -- has not gotten.
Where is the Illinois AG on this caper ?
"Mary A. Tolan, a founder of Accretive Health, has served as our president and chief executive officer and a director since November 2003. Prior to joining our company, Ms. Tolan spent 21 years at Accenture Ltd, a leading global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company."
Uh -- can we outsource the "outsourcing company?"
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A world made of words.
These people are choking us to death.
Accretive was wooed with tax incentives to relocate their headquarters here several years ago. Mayor Daley partnered them up with one his projects, Chicago Career Tech which was supposed to hook people up with job training and placement. People were told they would be trained as medical coders. Turned out they were trained to be medical billers. They wring out money from insurance companies and Medicaid on behalf of their clients, the hospitals and medical service providers. They have other areas of business that optimizes collections, but very little contact with actual patients.
They are still hooked up with Chicago Career Tech and if the business folded, a lot of jobs would be lost.
"Oh how they are glorified in corporate propaganda eh. They should be so proud."
--5/09/2012 01:41:00 AM
Yeah, like the swarm of bloodsucking mosquitoes hovering over there at Loevy and Loevy.
Right, Andy?
Just like the people who run ONTO a train after an accident. Andy Thayer WANTS to get hit in the head by "the police" -- not too badly, just enough so he can shriek, point at his noggin in pretended shock and outrage, and sue, sue, sue.
On such was America built, huh?
Nice To See A State Where The Attorney General Is Not A Product Of The Corrupt Machine,"SHE" is Swore To Investigate.
Anonymous said...
Are we even allowed to comment on his action? If we comment are we disobeying department policy?
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Freedom of Speech First Amendment....
Oh wait, this is Chicago,,, There are no amendments that are valid here...the 2nd left long ago.
"I request that the parties cease efforts to publicly prosecute this matter and rather try to resolve the matter privately."
This from a guy who loves to attack everyone and anyone out in the open when he thinks it's ok.
I applaud Attorney General Swanson for ignoring Emmanuel and pushing forward. I look forward to seeing how this developes. It scares me that government is too big and could find a way to squash this before AG Swanson either completes her investigation or seeks to publish the results.
Vote Romney in November. The Racoon is shitting and pissing on everyone because he knows Obama and the AG won't touch him. Time for a change and get rid of this little conniving rat bastard.
Oh how they are glorified in corporate propaganda eh. They should be so proud.
So how come the mayor wants everyone to sit down and shut up?
Meanwhile expectant mothers are allegedly being harassed in hospital emergency rooms by the collection agencies?
Ahh but look at that board. Hollywood and politicians. No wonder healthcare cost are exploding and nothing is being addressed to open the free-markets.
5/09/2012 01:41:00 AM
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
This country is so fucked!
Tax breaks for lawbreakers?
Close the city clinics, Jail the nurses from the national nurses union, promote the badgering of patients by corporate debt collectors sitting in hospital emergency rooms waiting to be treated.
How Machiavellian can you get?
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Accretive Health, Hospital Debt Collector, To Receive Millions In Tax Benefits In Chicago
Under an agreement approved by the City Council last year, Chicago is set to hand over $6 million in tax increment financing to Accretive Health, the hospital debt collector at the center of a growing row between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson.
An Emanuel spokesman said Tuesday that the city has yet to turn over any of the money pledged under the agreement to Accretive Health. But a vocal critic of the way the city has used such "TIFs" said it was emblematic of the city's lack of transparency on such agreements
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Accretive Health has also negotiated $1.42 million in tax and job training credits from the state of Illinois.
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Alderman Scott Waguespack voted for the TIF agreement in May 2011. But he says the city should be allowed to take developments like the news that Accretive is under investigation by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson into account when it comes to dispersing the funds. He also says he was not aware of the company's practices -- which allegedly include stationing bill collectors at patients' bedsides -- until recent publicity about Swanson's lawsuit against the company.
"Unless you have time to dig into it yourself, it doesn't come out," Waguespack said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/09/accretive-health-chicago_n_1504308.html
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If the alderman are not digging into it then what are we paying them to do? What are the aldermen so busy doing, what? Tell me? What?
I'm interested to know to whom Rahm was referring when he used the word 'we' in the following statement.
"Please confirm to me that this is the path 'we' are on and let me know the date for which the meeting is scheduled."
Minnesota Attorney General's Office
1400 Bremer Tower
445 Minnesota Street
St. Paul, MN 55101
I suggest mail to her office with requests to censure Rahm for attempting to interfere with a criminal investigation....A Felony in Minnesota and Illinois...Oh Snap...Felony that crosses a State line...isn't that worthy of a federal complaint as well?
I have to agree there haven't been any investigative reporters in Chicago for YEARS.. and even longer in for the NATIONAL media.. no one even reads MSM or listens to it anymore because of that.. I have a feeling that IF someone were to investigate any of those who voted for Obama's health care bill they would find a WHOLE flock of those connected who sold stock as the bill was being written and bought stock in other companies where they KNEW that business would be funneled after the passage of the bill.. For those that don't get it the very people who are telling the truth about things like this are being attacked .. dismissed .. and made to seem mean when they bring out the truth.. maybe it would be of help to watch/listen to those that the politicians do NOT want you to listen to and gain some insight to what is really going on..
go get'em Swanson
Rahm was hated in his Winnetka neighborhood. He would sell his soul for a leg up.
Atta boy Rahm.
go count your $18M so legitimately earned from Wasserstein Perella & Company
Stinks more than Limburger (sp?) cheese. Anybody know the story?
maybe "Morning Glory" Bill Clinton gave a call
"As long as that little f*cker promises to move to Minnesota, he has my vote! Hell, I'll even help load all the boxes on the moving van."
He might already be a Minnesota "resident". Maybe he has a building there where he keeps boxes of old clothes and shit.
"My objective is just to be a happy, confident capitalist,"
Me, too.
Rahm targeting my pension will make that more difficult, if not impossible.
Don't be surprised when a man you've given nothing to lose begins acting like a man with nothing to lose.
Wow. I thought Chicago was the only city involved in such crappy deals. We're following Detroit's lead in so many ways, however!
The Detroit Police Department has been wildly overpaying for their unmarked undercover and surveillance cars—a mistake one expert estimates caused $4 million in waste
http://www.policemag.com/Channel/Vehicles/News/2012/05/08/Detroit-Pays-65K-To-Lease-2004-Police-Car.aspx
Anonymous said...
To 5/09/2012 12:15:00 AM
Just make sure you get ALL the boxes on the moving van.
Paging Ben Joravsky...
Please sink your teeth into this one, sir.
If anyone were connected with a company that intimidates sick people in hospital beds, it'd be a bastard like Emanuel.
He's talking about raising the property tax here by 150%.
5/09/2012 12:10:00 AM
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No, he's intimidating the citizens of Chicago by terrorizing them with the THREAT of raising taxes 150%. That way, they'll be on his side and want to decimate our pensions.
"[Accretive has] other areas of business that optimizes collections, but very little contact with actual patients."
05/09/2012 01:01:00 PM
"On April 24, 2012, the Minnesota AG released a six-volume report detailing Accretive Health's aggressive debt collection practices, including demanding payment from patients who were currently seeking medical care in hospitals. The next day, an article published by The New York Times discussed the Minnesota AG's report. On these revelations, Accretive Health shares declined $7.74 per share or nearly 42%, to close at $10.75 per share on April 25, 2012."
The story about the ill relative going to Resurrection Hospital and being intimidated by fucking uncaring Zombie insurance collector really pissed me off. I would have thrown that insensitive Biatch right out of the ER. But this is what is going on today. Even if you owe any of these greedy bastards a dollar they come after you like crazy. And right in the middle of all this corrupt shit we find the Racoon. Speaks volumes doesn't it.
Minnesota is a liberal state that actually tries to enforce the law. Rahm is trying to impede Minnesota. We will not tolerate that. He may be king in shitcago, but not up here.
If you help him move, you won't be welcome up here either.
Six Volumes of digging by AG Swanson. Rahm must be worried the real people in Minnesoota will dig up something on his friends at Accretive.
"Jail the nurses from the national nurses union..."
-- 5/09/2012 06:08:00 PM
Huh?
That's OK, just make it up as you go along.
Pecks like a chicken, and has about the same brain capacity.
A chicken's not malicious, though.
"Just make sure you get ALL the boxes on the moving van."
--5/09/2012 11:37:00 PM
AMEN!
I wonder where the Obamas will go. Michelle said that they're not coming back here.
"Atta boy Rahm...go count your $18M so legitimately earned from Wasserstein Perella & Company."
--5/09/2012 07:28:00 PM
"Emanuel...went on to make more than $18 million in just two-and-a-half years, turning many of his contacts in his substantial political Rolodex into paying clients and directing his negotiating prowess and trademark intensity to mergers and acquisitions. He also benefited from the opportune sale of Wasserstein Perella to a German bank, helping him to an unusually large payout.
"The period before he was elected to a House seat from Illinois is a little-known episode of Mr. Emanuel’s biography...Emanuel built up strong ties with an industry now at the heart of the economic crisis...
"After Mr. Emanuel left banking to run for Congress, members of the securities and investment industry became his biggest backers, donating more than $1.5 million to his campaigns dating back to 2002..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/us/politics/04emanuel.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
These people are in the hospitals waving credit card readers in the faces of sick people -- and at the other end...
Accretive exec buys in Oak Brook
"Akshya Kumar, an executive at Chicago-based Accretive Health Inc., and Shalini Kumar bought a five-bedroom, 7½-bathroom Oak Brook home for $2.8 million last month..."
-- from Crain's Chicago Business
"One of the biggest local companies to go public in recent years, hospital revenue consulting firm Accretive Health Inc., last year won a tax-increment financing subsidy and state incentives to build a processing and training operation at 231 S. LaSalle St...
"Accretive pledged to hire 650 people for the facility over 10 years, in addition to maintaining a headquarters staff of 175 on North Michigan Avenue."
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20110528/ISSUE01/305289984
I can feel the cost of health care dropping right now.
More! More "consulting firms," please!
You? You get a 12-minute visit with some officious, baby-talking, partially-competent twentysomething APN everyone there calls "Doctor."
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Obstruction of justice. Chicago style, come
on news investigators. Let's see what you got,
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