It is probably the second best hospital in the city. It does not build a trauma center because it would become a magnet for gunshot victims and other major trauma cases which generally happen to uninsured people and medicaid pays a pittance. So a trauma center would be hugely unprofitable to a hugely profitable enterprise.

This has caused heat for the hospital and the University of Chicago for decades. U of C Hospital has a policy of hiring politician's family to keep the heat off - the most famous being Michelle Obama.

Tell me one more time why this should be a non-profit? Because it is not. It is an amazing corrupt practice.

Not in a serious way.

By their actions, you will know their true intent.

There are politicans who would prefer to ship jobs to foreign countries and support endless wars/occupations in the Middle-East.

They who have paid lip service to being concerned about the economic conditions in this country don't seem to focus upon that and follow through. Just as one example, how is that community doing in which Candidate Obama was a community organizer? Who else in Washington said that they were concerned about US jobs but then supported let's-send-even-more-jobs-to-foreign-countries "free-trade" agreements.

There are even DUers who seem to have no interest in the how the economic conditions are affecting violence but have no hesitation is repeating "NRA" or "Fuck the NRA" as many times as they want.

and those who promote aspects of it out of nothing but self-interest, has a strong tendency to emphasize the individual and ignore the context.

In a way, that is delusional and a by-product of the capitalist model of reality that relies on the "rugged individual" to promote and support its paradigm. We are becoming more of a "society" in name only. The words society and culture are becoming less useful as container abstracts that signify a contract or bond. In fact, their dictionary definitions are being subsumed by the dominance of corporate tyranny enhanced by government collusion.

When you take the time to look into bona fide studies on the overall impact of an environment, (as context) and its impact on large segments of those living under certain factors, you can make predictions of the outcomes for many of those individuals based on economic factors alone. Yet, we rely on pyramid-scheme, romantic stories of the exceptions to the grim facts in order to support a mythology of success and mobility that seems more like a DSM entry than anything resembling a concrete aspect of our reality.

If our culture is going to continue to live in the simulated, hyper-reality of media and magic, which lies under the dark shadow of the exploitation class replete with horrific portrait of Dorian Grey in our collective attic, then that assures that more and more of us will be cast into that shadow where we struggle for subsistence and survival while grumbling about the many luxury car commercials on television -- if we still have a TV and a place to watch it.

Today, this story about violence in Chicago, Yesterday a graph showing the city isn't even in the top 10 of US in violence per population. What are we to believe? And the article doesn't address the fact that Stroger Hosp. is a few miles away from UC and is practically an all trauma facility with excellent gunshot outcomes. A biased look methinks.