How One Hospital Deals with Identity Theft

When logic and sanity bump up against bureaucracy, bureaucracy always wins. I can't imagine this occurring if the hospital system in America wasn't so corrupted by government regulations.

Rafi Kohan writes in the The New York Observer:

Lisa Schifferle, an attorney with the FTC, told me a story about a pregnant woman who after having her identity stolen showed up at the hospital in labor and was turned away because according to the hospital's records she had already had a baby six months earlier.