Infections in US hospitals kill 48,000, cost billions: study (Or 99,000)

AFP ^ | Feb 22, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Nearly 50,000 US medical patients die every year of blood poisoning or pneumonia they picked up in hospital, a study published Monday shows.

Hospital-acquired sepsis and pneumonia in 2006 claimed 48,000 lives, led to 2.3 million extra patient-days in hospital and cost 8.1 billion dollars, according to the study, led by researchers from the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy at Washington-based Resources for the Future.

Together, the two hospital-acquired infections -- also called nosocomial infections -- account for about one-third of the 1.7 million infections US patients pick up every year while in hospital, the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows.

They are also responsible for nearly half of the 99,000 deaths a year from hospital-acquired infections reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

[decimon]

No go ping.

[NautiNurse]

Close all the hospitals. That will teach ‘em.

[CodeToad]

Liberals claim 35,000 die each year from guns so we should ban guns...I guess we should ban doctors.

[Dem Guard]

Know it well. Went in to the hospital with a lung infection and stayed there 5 weeks and nearly was given my last rites. Ask my attending physician what exactly I had and he said he didn’t know since I could have contacted additional viruses or bacterial infections while I was in the hospital as well. They just through every treatment they had at me and lucky for me it worked.

[Dem Guard]

Know it well. Went in to the hospital with a lung infection and stayed there 5 weeks and nearly was given my last rites. Ask my attending physician what exactly I had and he said he didn’t know since I could have contacted additional viruses or bacterial infections while I was in the hospital as well. They just (threw) every treatment they had at me and lucky for me it worked.

opps!

[decimon]

At least they were thorew thorough in their treatment. Glad it worked out for you.

[cookiedough]

I think it is a major problem.

How many people died fighting in Vietnam?

How many people die each year from car accidents caused by drunk drivers?

It’s a lot, no matter how you look at it.

[qam1]

That's of course assuming it's true

Liberals love to pull numbers out of their @§§es,

remember they claim 60,000 die from 2nd hand smoke and 163 million people are displaced because of environmental reasons

Let's see a list with names of people who really died this way

[TheThirdRuffian]

It’ll be so much better when it’s socialized.

You know, like the DMV or the IRS.

[TheThirdRuffian]

When my wife was in the hospital, I set out with bathroom cleaner to clean her entire room, floor, whatever on a daily basis.

[decimon]

That's of course assuming it's true

Liberals love to pull numbers out of their @§§es,

Statistics are always suspect when not knowing how they were compiled. These numbers could be overstated or understated but the actually numbers would likely still be uncomfortably high.

[decimon]

It’ll be so much better when it’s socialized.

It's already socialized. Maybe that's the problem.

[Studebaker Hawk]

That's of course assuming it's true Liberals love to pull numbers out of their @§§es, remember they claim 60,000 die from 2nd hand smoke and 163 million people are displaced because of environmental reasons Let's see a list with names of people who really died this way
Don't forget the firearms problem

[bunkerhill7]

That pretty nurse gave me the clap.

[decimon]

That pretty nurse gave me the clap.

She cheered your performance or gave you an STD?

[Dem Guard]

I think the biggest problem is all the medical personnel running from room to room. In a given day I wouldn’t be surprised if there weren’t 30 different people coming in.

[Dem Guard]

I was put in to a coma for 2.5 weeks so I had to find out what had transpired from my wife. The third day they told her I should have my last rites which scared the hell out of her. After using everything they had I awoke 45 lbs lighter and so weak I had to learn how to walk and use my hands and arms again. The total 5 weeks in the hospital was 245K. Lucky for us we had BCBS and not Obamacare.

[decimon]

I was put in to a coma for 2.5 weeks...

Yeah, that's close to the earth. Glad it came out alright.

[GailA]

SIL nearly died of staff infection at the prestigious Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville a couple of years ago.

OBAMANOMICS--TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!

Sen. Scot Brown's number is 202-224-5443

Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121

Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke.

Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military's secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011)

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.

OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS

Friday, February 19, 2010

Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security

http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security

Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan

http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html

Socialized Med Thread

TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:

http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html

This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.)

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf

http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm

Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09

Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries

Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w

By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009

Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.

Snip

The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.

Snip

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.

“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.

Bambi doesn't keep his promises...so buyer beware.