Obamacare Alert: Half a Million Patients Sent Home Too Soon Each Year
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, January 31, 2010, 6:37 PM
Here’s a glimpse into the future under your Pelosi-Obama-Reid health care plan…
500,000 hospital patients sent home too soon every year (and 1,500 a day readmitted for emergency care)
The Daily Mail reported:
More than 500,000 patients every year are readmitted to hospital after apparently being sent home too soon, alarming figures reveal.
Labour’s waiting-time targets have been blamed for the 50 per cent rise in emergency readmissions of patients within days of them being discharged.
Critics said it was a scandal that almost 1,500 a day were apparently being released before they are well enough, harming their recovery.
They say the targets put pressure on hospitals to discharge people early to free up beds and have turned the NHS into a ‘revolving door’.
Elderly patients are particularly vulnerable if they are sent home too soon, charities warned. There are also fears hospitals are trying to cash in from being paid twice to treat the same patient.
And, yet Obama says your “fearmongering” for pointing out these obvious flaws of nationalized health care.
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Dell commented:
I’m convinced – I’m a “monger”.
When our military is engaged, I demand we fight to win. For that I’m called a “war monger”.
When I see the handwriting on the wall as plain as the clear, blue sky, I try my best to warn friend and foe alike that what’s about to take place is a BAD thing.
When I see one piece of evidence after another that our highest leaders (pardon the pun) are trying to convert our country to a Socialist State, I stand up and sound the alert. For that, I’m a “fear monger”.
If I disagree with the President on ANYTHING, I’m a raaaaaacist and “hate monger”.
I guess what they say is true. I’m a monger. Just insert whatever prefix you’d like.
tnxplant commented:
Early discharge and subsequent readmission is nothing new here in the US. I don’t have statistics, but I personally know of several cases where someone was d/c’d the same day after an outpatient surgery that in years past was inpatient and had to return to the ER with horrific pain or other issues.
I think we who oppose a totally government run health system in this country need to be careful about how we make comparisons. The case could be made that we’d see more of this premature discharge under a state system, but the problem already exists here.