Who needs death panels when you can grade on a curve?
Death Panels by another name.
Obamacare - the gift that just keeps giving.
“Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program”
and this is precisely what was predicted at the time the Democrats were pushing it.
For the safety of every American the only answer is to get the government the ‘H’ out of our healthcare. Write laws preventing any future dalliance with our health by the Socialist-Democrats.
Sending men home with catheters right after surgery is a form of male sex abuse I thought I’d never see. Unfortunately I “saw” it when helping a family member.
5,400 deaths are an acceptable loss when you think of all the money that ObamaCare has saved everyone!
Right?
Bah...”Death Panels” don’t exist. Everybody knows that! — so sayeth every lib across the land. They were ignorantly looking for the “Death Panel” section in the bill or the door in the hospital with the sign “Death Panels - Woe to all who Enter This Portal.” Lib article after article couldn’t find a “Death Panel” anywhere. But here they are.
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet;
Or, in the O-Care case...
What’s in a name? that which we call a turd
By any other word would smell as shitty;
Damn——I couldn’t get the article-——and I’m on Medicare.
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Predicable, and unsurprising - accept perhaps to the outcomes analysis purveyors, who tend to be uninformed yet convinced.
This was the plan, wasn’t it?
Sarah Palin was right.
Lie. The effects are exactly what was intended.
I can hardly wait to see this be the lead story on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN.
I had a relative in rehab and she was discharged, but needed more help. The rehab would not take her back because they didn’t want a readmission. So she went to the hospital where there was no rehab, just lay in bed.
Whoa, Jack! That means that HALF of hospitals are getting dunned all the time! And it is a no-win deal. If they cut their readmission rate, the average will drop, and they will still be dunning the HALF who are above average!
Government operations at their finest!
All these government people who designed this must have gone to Lake Woebegone High School. Nobody else could be this diabolical.
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.
I remember tracking this myself for a while. It was not insignificant in dollars.
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.
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.
Useful article. Yet another example of directly foreseen failure.