ObamaCare’s Death Payments: A program to reduce hospital admissions may have led to more deaths.

Wall Street Journal ^ | November 23, 2017

[Elsie]

about 5,400 additional deaths per year.

Watch out bucket!

Here comes a drop!!

CHOICE kills a million a year.

But it's OUR room and Our elephant; so we just dispose of the piles of crap it leaves all around; and continue to ignore the effects it has on our society.

[Elsie]

What should we expect anyway?

It is clear that half of all doctors graduated in the lower 50% of their class.

[Elsie]

Only the grave is coming much quicker these days.

PFFFT!

1 in 4 viable unborn human children NEVER even make it TO the cradle!

[Elsie]

But close enough for Government work.

[ex91B10]

Fortunately I get all my health care at the VA Hospital.

They're not immune from the effects of administering health care on a budget.

[airborne]

Can’t argue with your point.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

That is a very valid point.

[momincombatboots]

I remember tracking this myself for a while. It was not insignificant in dollars.

[trebb]

First they want them to clear the beds ASAP then they want to penalize if they cleared the bed too early .....seen some folks pushed out the door when it was obvious they were still very ill and/or had nobody to assist them. One died because his “Flu” turned out to be sepsis from regular red blood cell transfusions he was getting....he got back in time to have a massive heart attack because his body was too beat up from the real problem.

[thirst4truth]

Recently my son, 35, was admitted to the hospital at 10pm with a case of severe appendicitis. The ER doctor knew his wife, as he diagnosed her cancer at age 19, so he loved her.

He said, no emergency surgery this late at night, too risky. Lets put you on antibiotics, admit you overnight and hope to ease the inflammation and have surgery tomorrow morning with the best surgeons. He waited and all went well.

[thirst4truth]

"Obamacare - the gift that just keeps giving."

ObamaCare - the gift that just keeps on killing.

If you read the creators of the ACA, writings from the 60's you would know it was all about killing off the elderly. One of them even said out loud, when you become a non producer, a non contributor to society due to your age, not worth the cost to keep you alive.

[lepton]

Useful article. Yet another example of directly foreseen failure.

[generally]

Why don’t they just kill the really sick patients instead of discharging them? Definitely no re-admission then.

/s

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Please. Do. NOT. Give. Them. Any. Ideas.