Hill-Burton Act

Cleveland Clinic and UH’s greed helped killed the 47 hospitals and 7000 beds thinking leaders started building in 1837 to deal with future pandemics

CLEVELAND, OH – The Cleveland City Directory of 1974 identifies 47 hospitals in the nation’s 8th largest city that year.  Within and around Cleveland’s direct municipal borders were 7000 hospital beds that had been built into our health care infrastructure since City Hospital was constructed in 1837 after the cholera pandemic.  This story’s feature image is of the newly-constructed free Cleveland hospital 184 years ago. As Cleveland experienced more pandemics the city’s enlightened political and health care leaders pushed for and enacted laws that provided funding to increase hospital bed capacity and expand free care.  By 1937 Cleveland’s City Hospital…

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Killer Mike couldn’t ask Sanders why he didn’t create a free city hospital as mayor

CLEVELAND, OH – To the politically-knowing Bernie (Gitman) Sanders is all hype and no substance.  He served for 8 years as Burlington, Vermont’s mayor from 1981 to 1989.  His most significant accomplishment is a trip to Russia where he violated the 1917 Espionage Act in 1988 by initiating correspondence with a Russian mayor then President Mikhail Gorbachev appointed.  The last minute decision to marry his wife and turn the Soviet Union trip into a honeymoon sounds like a cover story. Americans still don’t know what his Russian father Eliasz Gitman did after he arrived here in 1921 at 17 and…

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Governor Lausche’s unused law has allowed Ohio city councils to create free hospitals since 1953

COLUMBUS, OH – Since October 1, 1953 any Ohio city council member could have introduced legislation to create a free hospital to care for residents that’s controlled by the director of public safety under Chapter 749 of Ohio’s Revised Code.   The 1953 law funded free hospitals with a simple property tax.  $1 a year for every $1000 in property value.  $50 a year on a $50,000 home. Section 749.01 of Chapter 749 is specifically one of the state laws every elected municipal official swears to obey and enforce, but the majority haven’t read.   It’s why local politicians are looking to…

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Cleveland Clinic and UH’s greed helped killed the 47 hospitals and 7000 beds thinking leaders started building in 1837 to deal with future pandemics

CLEVELAND, OH – The Cleveland City Directory of 1974 identifies 47 hospitals in the nation’s 8th largest city that year.  Within and around Cleveland’s direct municipal borders were 7000 hospital beds that had been built into our health care infrastructure since City…

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