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L.A. files patient `dumping’ charges
Kaiser Permanente is accused of leaving a homeless woman to wander on skid row.

The Los Angeles city attorney’s office filed false-imprisonment and dependent-care-endangerment charges against hospital giant Kaiser Permanente on Wednesday, the first criminal prosecution of a medical center accused of “dumping” patients on skid row.

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The dems won… for that i’m quite pleased. I’m at the same time a bit worried that too many will be complacent with the results and not hold them to the fire on the issues–Iraq, healthcare, corporate greed, and so forth.