Political Quotes

“among other things, this article says: ``Hospitals have cut down on deadly medical errors, saving around 87,000 lives since 2010, according to a new government report.'' I am not going to read the whole thing, but it is part of the Record. The article also says: 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. . . . On Tuesday, the agency announced its latest findings on these ``hospital-acquired conditions''. . . . That rate is unchanged from last year, but it is down 17 percent from 2010, when it was about 145 out of every 1,000 patients. That is not the case anymore. Continuing: That decline works out to roughly 87,000 lives saved and $19.8 billion not spent on extra medical care, according to the report. . . . A major goal of the Affordable Care Act was to reduce and eventually eliminate these incentives for poor quality care, while rewarding the hospitals that get better results. Today, for example, Medicare pays less to institutions with high rates of hospital-acquired infection, injury and readmission--in other words, large numbers of patients returning to the hospital for treatment shortly after discharge. . . .…”