Federally Regulated Hospitals: Worse Than World War II

[Ravenseye]

'Researching data on nearly half of all hospital admissions from 2000 through 2002 in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Healthgrades puts the number of annual deaths from medication errors and other in-hospital mistakes at 195,000. That’s more than three Vietnams every year, more than triple the total number of Americans killed in Vietnam in over a decade of war.'

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'Imagine what we’d do as a nation if a U.S. passenger jet was crashing every day, or if a gang of jihadist shoe-bombers was successful in bringing down a fully-loaded U.S. passenger plane every day. The 195,000 figure, explains Collier, is "the equivalent of 390 jumbo jets full of people dying each year due to likely preventable, in-hospital medical errors, making this one of the leading killers in the U.S."'

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reiland/reiland10.html

[denverbill]

1. Why post crap from Lew Rockwell?

And why blame 'federal regulation' for hospital medical errors?

The article itself doesn't blame 'federal regulation'. It doesn't even mention government.

You want to blame someone Lew? Blame the libertarian, penny-pinching, hospital administrators who make nurses work 20 hour days cause they are too cheap to hire more nurses. Blame overworked residents forced to work 24 hour shifts in the ER.

Lew Rockwell is a fucking moron.