Star-Ledger Editorial Slams Meadowlands Hospital’s Birth Tourism Program…And Other HPAE News
August 18, 2016
Star-Ledger Editorial Slams Meadowlands Hospital’s Birth Tourism Program
“For-profit hospitals like Meadowlands Hospital are like other businesses: They explore different revenue streams at every board meeting, they have to answer to shareholders, and they occasionally take a tacky detour from what many of us still believe is a mostly altruistic mission. But Meadowlands Hospital has crossed a line by taking an aggressive leap into the so-called birth tourism industry – the practice of soliciting pregnant Russian women to come to Secaucus to deliver their babies, which makes the newborns U.S. citizens…..”
NJ Spotlight Reporter Talks About Meadowlands Hospital’s “Amerimama” Program on NJTV
NJTV had a news story Tuesday on Meadowlands Hospital’s “Amerimama” program, which entices pregnant Russian women to deliver their babies in the U.S., making them eligible for U.S. citizenship.
HPAE, Other Groups in NJ for Healthcare Call on Legislative Leaders to Pass Out of Network Bill
A letter signed by 34 groups in NJ for Healthcare, including HPAE, was sent today to Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto and Senate President Stephen Sweeney. The groups call on both leaders to support the Out-of-Network Consumer Protection, Cost Containment, Transparency and Accountability Act (A1952/S1285) that has been stalled in the legislature. HPAE Chief of Staff Jeanne Otersen said “….we support this legislation to better inform patients and give them the information they need to avoid surprise medical bills while helping to provide needed savings in the State Health Benefits Plan.”
This Week in U.S. Labor History
Phelps-Dodge copper miners in Morenci and Clifton, Ariz., are confronted by tanks, helicopters, 426 state troopers and 325 National Guardsmen brought in to walk strikebreakers through picket lines in what was to become a failed 3-year fight by the Steelworkers and other unions – August 19, 1983
Read about other important struggles and events in U.S. labor history which occurred from August 15 to August 21, provided by Union Communication Services (UCS).
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