I have been working with a bipartisan coalition including New York State officials and Senators JAvITs and MOYNHAN and Members of the House of Representatives in urging the Carter administration to save the hospital from closing. While these emergency efforts continue. we in Congress must immediately address ourselves to longterm solutions to the cash flow problems of Brooklyn Jewish and of other public and private nonprofit hospitals in similar straits. I have introduced legislation (H.R. 3628 and H.R. 3629) which will enable the Federal Government to reimburse financially ailing hospitals whose deficits result from unreimbursed services to illegal aliens and the working poor. I urge my colleagues to join me in cosponsoring this legislation and in pushing for immediate hearings. Passage of this legislation will stem the continuing hemorrhage of funds experienced by Brooklyn Jewisha loss of some $6 million annuallywhich has brought the hospital to the brink of disaster.
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