"...no nothing..."? I take it you mean KNOW nothing? :)
On Sunday 30 September 2007 10:57, Mark Corrigan wrote:
> 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
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> 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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