On the recordDecember 2, 2015
on ObamaCare, one newspaper reports: Fewer Patients Have Been Dying From Hospital Errors Since ObamaCare Started. Report says about 87,000 lives have been saved since 2010. This is as a result of that legislation. I am not going to read the whole article. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the article to which I just referred. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the Huffington Post, Dec. 1, 2015] Fewer Patients Have Been Dying From Hospital Errors Since Obamacare Started (By Jonathan Cohn) Hospitals have cut down on deadly medical errors, saving around 87,000 lives since 2010, according to a new government report. Pinning down the precise reasons for this change is difficult, to say nothing of predicting whether the decline will continue. Improvement has slowed in just the last year, the report suggests. But many analysts think government initiatives within the Affordable Care Act have played a significant role in the progress so far. In short, Obamacare may literally be saving lives. The new report comes from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services and is something like an in-house think tank dedicated to making medical care safer and more effective.…
