On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Charles Ballinger wrote:
Any except the gov't hospital.
What government hospital are you talking about? I take it that you
are not a veteran and no nothing about the VA. The VA is the
biggest hospital system in the world and provides very good care for
the less money than any other hospital in the US. The VA is not
constrained by the latest medicaid/medicare bill that prevents bulk
bidding for medicines. As a consequence the VA pays the least amount
for medicine of any hospital in the US. The VA is the most
computerized and has the most advanced medical software of any
hospital in the world. The VA was using bar code scanners to scan
patients and pass meds 10 years ago. This makes it virtually
impossible to have a medication error. Doctors do not hand write
orders at the VA. All orders have do be entered into a computer.
Hand written orders are the number one reason for medication
mistakes . They kill some where in the neighborhood of 100,000
people per year in the us. All hospital in this country have problems
(including the VA), but please don't knock the best run hospital
system in the country (which happens to be government run) to private
hospitals. By the way the VA is not Walter Reed which is a army
hospital for active duty soldiers. And one of Walter Reed's biggest
problem's came about because they privatized their janitorial staff
with a subsidiary of Haliburton.
For profit and nonprofit are equal except if you're a high risk OB/
sick mother case and would prefer the mother be saved by
sacrificing the baby should it come to that. In that case you'd
want to avoid certain religious affiliated hospitals.
On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Given the choice of three hospitals and knowing only that one was
run by
a government agency, one was run by a for-profit corporation, and
one was
run by a religious-charitable organization, which would your choose?
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