And there has never been price controls to curb runaway medical costs: "On July 26, 2000, the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association published a landmark paper by Dr. Barbara Starfield (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health), "Is US health really the best in the world?" In it, Starfield revealed what many people inside the medical establishment already knew: every year, like clockwork, the medical system was killing huge numbers of people. Each year in the US, as Dr. Starfield reported, there are: 12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries; 7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals; 20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals; 80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals; 106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines." "The total of medically-caused deaths in the US every year is 225,000. (a conservative estimate)" "This makes the medical system the third leading cause of death in America, behind heart disease and cancer."
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 11:15:42 +0000
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