Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Preventable Deaths Rampant in Hospitals: Preventable medical errors in hospitals are the third leading cause of death in the United States, experts told a Senate panel chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday, ProPublica, The Wall Street Journal, Modern Healthcare and WVNY-TV reported. As many as 440,000 people die each year from preventable medical errors in hospitals. Sanders said the current system in hospitals as dysfunctional, profit oriented and not patient centered. VA Reform: Acting Secretary Sloan Gibsons funding request for $17.6 billion has complicated negotiations over the VA bill, according to Politico, Bloomberg and Cronkite News Service. Sen. Sanders said he recognizes increasing health care access for veterans comes with a “very big price tag” but argued Congress needs to allocate resources to solve the immediate crisis caused by long wait times. Rep. Jeff Miller scoffed at the $17.6 billion number, saying it seems to have magically fallen out of the sky, Military News reported. Expanding Social Security: Expanding Social Security is once again a mainstream part of the Democratic platform. Some progressive voices in Congress, including Sen. Sanders, have been behind these reforms all along, William Greider wrote for The Nation. Cost of War: “Congress effort to quickly deal with the crisis plaguing the health care system run by the Department of Veterans Affairs promised to be a swift triumph of bipartisan cooperation, bringing together two unlikely sponsors, Sens. Sanders and John McCain. But congratulations were cut short by a Congressional Budget Office analysis that the Sanders-McCain bill might cost as much as $50 billion annually,” Ross K. Baker wrote in a USA Today column. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/071814
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:30:42 +0000
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