December 12, 2008
Teaching Hospitals Warily Await Details of Obama's Health-Care Plan
Karen H. Sexton, vice president of the University of Texas Medical Branch health system, sees both promise and peril in President-elect Barack Obama's plan to expand health-care coverage to more Americans.
As the chief executive of a hospital that lost $120-million caring for uninsured people last year, she wholly supports universal health care. Fifteen percent of the medical branch's patients are uninsured, and with state support for indigent care declining, the teaching hospital was
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