Story:
Bronx (4/17/2010) - Some Bronx residents turned out Saturday for a town hall meeting in the Concourse to discuss what they believe to be discrimination in the city's private health care system.They say that New Yorkers who are on Medicaid are told to go to the clinic by the hospital staff. While patients who have better insurance like Blue Cross or GHI get to stay in the hospital, see the hospital doctors and sometimes get better treatment.
A clinic is a small heath care office. It sees lots of patients and is generally crowded. They have less staff and equipment than hospitals. It is cheaper to go to a clinic.
People of color tend to have Medicaid insurance while white people tend to have heath insurance from private companies like Blue Cross or GHI. People from the Bronx are saying that this creates a heath care system that is prejudiced because whites are getting better treatment than Latinos or Blacks.
Bronx Health REACH says the practice is illegal and has a lawsuit pending against three area private hospitals -- Montefiore, NewYork-Presbyterian and Mount Sinai.
The hospitals said that they are not racist. They said that they set up clinics for the Medicaid patients because many of their doctors simply do not accept low paying insurance like Medicaid.
People of color tend to have Medicaid insurance while white people tend to have heath insurance from private companies like Blue Cross or GHI. People from the Bronx are saying that this creates a heath care system that is prejudiced because whites are getting better treatment than Latinos or Blacks.
Bronx Health REACH says the practice is illegal and has a lawsuit pending against three area private hospitals -- Montefiore, NewYork-Presbyterian and Mount Sinai.
The hospitals said that they are not racist. They said that they set up clinics for the Medicaid patients because many of their doctors simply do not accept low paying insurance like Medicaid.
Questions:
1) Where did this story take place?
2) When did this story take place?
3) Where are the people on Medicaid told to go?
4) Where do the people on private insurance like Blue Cross or GHI get to stay?
5) What kind of insurance do people of color tend to have?
6) What kind of insurance do white people tend to have?
7) What 3 hospitals are being sued?
8) Why did they hospitals say they send the Medicaid patients to the clinics?
9) What is a clinic?
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