Posted on 12/02/2014 5:51:34 AM PST by Citizen Zed
The federal government doesn't have comparable data on hospital acquired conditions prior to 2010, which makes it difficult to compare this current decline with past trends.
What explains these declines? The Department of Health and Human Services has largely pointed at a set of programs that have come into effect since 2010 for catalyzing a movement towards better care and more emphasis on patient safety.
Some of them are part of Obamacare: new financial penalties for hospitals that have particularly high rates of readmissions or harm to Medicare patients. Many of those programs began in 2010 and 2011, with the money at stake rising year after year.
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Obama is SO WONDERFUL!!
Or fewer people are going to the hospital since their insurance has been canceled. Hospitals are germs factories. Patients are much safer in their own homes.
Well at least its something we can measure! like "raising awareness"
Hospitals closed because of Obumacare
pre-2010 hospitals took no precautions for patient safety. /sarc
Jeez-us, these people are pathetic. If our glorious government was not there to ‘protect’ us, how would the world function?
Of course "hospital acquired conditions " were reduced. Closed hospitals don't get patient visits, thereby reducing "hospital acquired conditions " to zero!
The LIBs/DIMs are continuing in their desperate attempts to make Clown Prince nobama seem positive at something. However, their inherent chronic dishonesty thwarts them at every juncture. Liars lie...that is what they do.
So... she’s claiming that there has been a decline in hospital acquired conditions since Obamacare kicked in in 2010, but data on these conditions has only been collected since 2010? How on earth can she make such a claim?
Attributing it to punishing hospitals for readmissions is just plain ludicrous. If hospitals refuse to admit critically ill patients because they will be punished for it, what are those patients supposed to do? I guess if they die from lack of treatment at home, they do not contribute to hospital statistics.
You can’t make hospital care better by punitive measures. You have to study the actual problems and address each problem specifically. That’s liberalism for you—always seeking to solve problems with blanket “solutions” that can’t possibly fix anything, instead of taking the time to study the problem to come up with workable solutions. Liberals are lazy!
“I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors.”
If only The One didn’t need to sleep! I await his apotheoisis.
That one is no lie. Prophylactic medications, many of them regulated to the extent that the government is specifying which ones must be used. The price we will pay for this is long term. One is that the patients will often end up on drugs for life with stress to the kidneys and body. Another is that overuse of antibiotics is contributing to drug resistance. The biggest problem is that doctors who readmit their patients (for the right reasons obviously) will be kicked out of hospitals to reduce the penalties. The intent of course is to destroy the US private health care system.
Also taking the VA approach of not scheduling patients will reduce the error count.
-PJ
Fewer hospitals and fewer people going to hospitals because they can’t afford it anymore will reduce the number of hospital deaths.
“Or fewer people are going to the hospital since their insurance has been canceled.”..
I believe you are on to something but of course, the gubmint would never admit to anything like that happening.
More importantly, how do they KNOW lives were saved?
Leftists (my preferred term) are not lazy; they’re evil.
> The intent of course is to destroy the US private health care system.
They’re doing a helluva job if that’s the case. That and everything else King Anti-Midas touches.
So. Jonathan Gruber is still working I see.
Grubering again!
Well, yes. They are that, too.
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