Well, apparently President Obama agrees!
Agrees with what? you ask.
That doctors, or rather hospitals, CAN be bad for your health!
'One recent study published in the journal Health Affairs estimated that 1 in 3 hospital patients experienced an "adverse event" such as being given the wrong medication, acquiring an infection or receiving the wrong surgical procedure." (McClatchy News Service).
On April 29,2011, the president took an important step toward rectifying this endemic quality of health care issue when he finalized plans to reward hospitals that provide high quality health care. These steps are a by-product of the new health care reform act the president signed into law last year.
In other words, hospitals that reduce that 1-in-3 ratio of mistakes and inappropriate treatment will receive more money from Medicare than those institutions that continue to misdiagnose and fail to take adequate precautions against secondary infections such as Staph and others
We all know of people have gone into hospital for a surgical procedure only to contract pneumonia or some viral infection that delays and complicates recovery from that surgery.
The hope is by hitting hospitals where it hurts, that is in the pocket-book, the Obama administration will gain traction in a bid to improve the quality of health care without sacrificing the many benefits that Medicare confers on Americans.
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