Why We Have Federal Antidiscrimiation Laws: Cleveland Clinic CEO...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Tue, 12/01/2009 - 21:08

The following appeared in the Nov. 27, 2009 Newsweek article "The Hospital That Could Cure Health Care " about the Cleveland Clinic:

[Cleveland Clinic president and CEO Dr.

Delos M. Cosgrove, a former cardiac surgeon] has even taken on the most intractable driver of American health-care costs: Americans.

Having already banned the hiring of smokers (a dictate enforced by urine tests for nicotine), Cosgrove declared this year that if it weren't illegal under federal law, he would refuse...

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