Now here is a good story from America.

By LIZ MARLANTES
Aug. 19, 2007
Starting next year, if a surgeon leaves an instrument inside a patient, Medicare won't cover the cost of fixing that mistake.
Under new rules issued in the beginning of August, Medicare will no longer pay for the costs of what it considers "preventable" conditions acquired in the hospital. These include everything from certain types of hospital-acquired infections, to patients who are given transfusions with the wrong blood type, to bed sores.
Instead, the hospitals themselves will have to cover these costs (since the rules also prevent them from billing the patient).

http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3499053

It will end up in the lap of the patients. All the patients, even the ones who aren't affected.

It will end up in the lap of the patients. All the patients, even the ones who aren't affected.

You mean they will raise prices across the board to cover their substantial losses? Oh, well, it was a nice idea Medicare had!!!!

You mean they will raise prices across the board to cover their substantial losses? Oh, well, it was a nice idea Medicare had!!!!
Yep.

Ever try to read a hospital bill? They will add another "$100 Service charge" and a few more "$50 band aids".... LOL!

Yep.
Ever try to read a hospital bill? They will add another "$100 Service charge" and a few more "$50 band aids".... LOL!

Yes I have! The Rosetta Stone is easier to understand. My uncle was a Doctor. His bills were "Fix Broken leg. $10.00." Ah! Those were the days! Often he got paid $5.00 and the rest in chickens and potatoes! :)

It will end up in the lap of the patients. All the patients, even the ones who aren't affected.


I was wondering why CG was praising this. LOL....

In any event, doctors does make money when ya sick, and does make money when ya sick bad and long. So, no treatment, so, longer sickness for da people dem. Dat means, unless you gat a chiney doctor, who does do da good bush tea, you in for a painful time of it now.

The public spending taxes are being cut....as Bush has threatened he would.

I was wondering why CG was praising this. LOL....

Because I applaud anything that makes hospitals take some responsibly for the often abysmal service they offer. I have some experience with hospitals, not as a patient thank God but as someone who visited people from the two Churches I pastored here and abroad. Also, to this day I am sometimes called in to visit with Buddhist. I have seen Nurses and even Doctors who are not fit to work at MacDonald's, let alone a place where they hold people lives in their hands.

I have seen people come into hospital for a minor procedure and come out dead. I have seen Doctors prescribe medicine that conflicts with the medicine already being taken. I have seen Nurses talking to each other as their charges press their buttons for help. I have seen people charged $100.00 for an aspirin that never got. I have seen people lying in their own excrement because those in charge were "too busy." I could tell you stories that would shock you to the bone.

Sunny pointed out that the loss would be passed on to other patients. This will indeed happen. What is needed is someway to not allow them to do this. My plumber does not charge me to fix what he messed up. Why should a hospital?

Because I applaud anything that makes hospitals take some responsibly for the often abysmal service they offer. I have some experience with hospitals, not as a patient thank God but as someone who visited people from the two Churches I pastored here and abroad. Also, to this day I am sometimes called in to visit with Buddhist. I have seen Nurses and even Doctors who are not fit to work at MacDonald's, let alone a place where they hold people lives in their hands.
I have seen people come into hospital for a minor procedure and come out dead. I have seen Doctors prescribe medicine that conflicts with the medicine already being taken. I have seen Nurses talking to each other as their charges press their buttons for help. I have seen people charged $100.00 for an aspirin that never got. I have seen people lying in their own excrement because those in charge were "too busy." I could tell you stories that would shock you to the bone.
Sunny pointed out that the loss would be passed on to other patients. This will indeed happen. What is needed is someway to not allow them to do this. My plumber does not charge me to fix what he messed up. Why should a hospital?



Well. It is a step backwards to me. Health care is important, and as wages have not gone up in a few years now under Bush, this would most certainly kill a few people allot quicker.
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