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http://espresso.repubblica.it/ Title to the article: "Hospital Inferno." SocioMed at its finest. 7,000 people die per year in Italian hospitals due to unhygenic conditions. That is two Medical 911's per year. Twice as many people die in Hospitals due to negligence in one year, than we have troops killed fighting terrorists in three years. Watched film of this. The hospital they filmed, Umberto I in Rome, the city's largest public hospital didn't quite look like a Soviet era hospital, but I sure wouldn't want to go there. Forza SociMed!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=10&u=/nm/20030429/hl_nm/medicare_preventive_dc Medicare Urged to Cover Preventive Health Services By Karen Pallarito NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - To improve the health of older and disabled Americans, Medicare should cover services that prevent disease, such as cholesterol, vision and hearing screenings, instead of focusing almost exclusively on treating people once they get sick, according to a report released Tuesday by the Partnership for Prevention. While Medicare decides whether to pay for certain treatments for beneficiaries who are ill, it takes an act of Congress to add coverage for services that may prevent illness in the first place. "Congress doesn't and can't act...