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New Orleans needs intensive care; The area's healthcare system has been slighted in federal recovery effort.

Publication: Modern Healthcare
Publication Date: 21-AUG-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: New Orleans needs intensive care; The area's healthcare system has been slighted in federal recovery effort.(Opinions)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Todd Sloane Assistant Managing Editor Op-Ed

A year after being drowned, New Orleans is flickering back to life, though the long-term prognosis for full recovery remains poor. You can't even say that much for the region's healthcare system, which remains in a near-vegetative state.

While some $100 billion in government aid has poured into the Gulf Coast region, healthcare has reaped a tiny fraction of that money, despite being one of the biggest unmet needs. More money has been wasted on unneeded mobile homes and outright fraud than was spent on...

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