Ayant vu leurs investissements disparaître dans la crise financière (et – pour certains – dans le scandale Madoff) les administrateurs de trois hôpitaux privés de Los Angeles, le Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, le Kaiser Permanente ainsi que le Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center ont ordonné au personnel de se débarasser des malades indigents en les jettant littéralement à la rue.
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RUINÉS PAR LA CRISE, LES HOPITAUX PRIVÉS DE LOS ANGELES JETTENT LITTÉRALEMENT... - 0 views
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Interrogée par le LA Times, Regina Chambers, assistante sociale à la Union Rescue Mission, a expliqué que Mme Reyes “était très désorientée. Elle ne savait pas où elle était ni ce qui lui arrivait. Ils ont profité de son état de désordre mental pour le jetter à la rue et libérer un lit pour un client plus fortuné“
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Sur ABC News, Marveil Williams, hospitalisé suite à un accident de voiture, a déclaré : “Comme je n’ai qu’une petite assurance santé et que je leur ai dit que je voulais un étalement du paiement des frais médicaux, ils m’ont déclaré que je devais quitter immédiatement mon lit d’hopital et me trouver un autre endroit où me faire soigner.” La tête couverte d’hématomes, presque aveugle par l’enflement de ses paupières, ayant du mal à respirer, Williams a été fourré dans un taxi qui a reçu l’ordre de le débarquer sur Skid Row, sur les marches de la Union Rescue Mission.
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Meeks used to have abundant water on his small alfalfa ranch, a 40-acre plot speckled with apple and plum trees northeast of the Wind River Mountains and about five miles outside the town of Pavillion. For 35 years he drew it clear and sweet from a well just steps from the front door of the plain, eight-room ranch house that he owns with his wife, Donna. Neighbors would stop off the rural dirt road on their way to or from work in the gas fields to fill plastic jugs; the water was better than at their own homes. But in the spring of 2005, Meeks’ water had turned fetid. His tap ran cloudy, and the water shimmered with rainbow swirls across a filmy top. The scent was sharp, like gasoline. And after 20 minutes — scarcely longer than you’d need to fill a bathtub — the pipes shuttered and popped and ran dry.
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As a result, drilling was about to happen in states not typically known for oil and gas exploration, including Michigan, New York and even Maryland. It would go from rural, sparsely populated outposts like Pavillion to urban areas outside Dallas, Denver and Pittsburgh. Along the way, a string of calamitous accidents and suspicious environmental problems would eventually make hydraulic fracturing so controversial that it would monopolize congressional hearings, draw hundreds in protests and inspire an Academy-Award-nominated documentary produced for Hollywood.
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At 540 feet the new well still wasn’t drawing water suitable for the cattle trough, and Meeks’ contractor, Louis Dickinson, shut down the engines and brought the drill bit to a rest. But before Dickinson could finish the job, a distant rumbling began echoing from below. It grew steadily louder, like some paranormal force winding its way through the earth. “Then, holy mackerel,” says Meeks, “it just came on us.” An explosion of white foam and water, chased by a powerful stream of natural gas, shot out of the ground where Meeks had drilled his well. It sprayed 200 feet through the air, nearly blowing the 70-foot-tall drilling derrick off its foundation, crystallizing in the frigid winter air and precipitating into a giant tower of ice. A Suspicious Correlation The blowout, roaring like a jet engine, continued for 72 hours, until a judge ordered EnCana engineers to use their equipment to control it. In that time, according to one estimate a gasfield worker gave Meeks, 6 million cubic feet of natural gas shot out of his 540-foot-deep water well, more than many gas wells in that part of Wyoming produced in an entire month.
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