Access to Essential Services, or Just Do-Gooders?

BY CINDY FLAKOLL
CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA - SD

Twenty-five years ago when I worked in a Midwestern hospital, I recall the welfare-recipient mothers of children with mere colds flocking to the local pediatrician who was willing to admit their children to the hospital for an occasional weekend---simply because the mothers said they “needed a break.” I had been forewarned by co-workers about this situation. Then I started seeing it with my own eyes, and I became a believer, because it was so very obvious that this really was occurring. (Full Story)