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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/23/obama-vetoes-9-11-victims-bill/

Mortdooley wrote on Sep 25^th, 2016 at 10:50pm:



Oh, you mean the ones who cook your hamburgers?

You should lay all the black men killed by Police followed by Riots directly at Obamas feet! Here is his legacy, a bunch of low IQ thugs and wannabe bad asses frightening armed Police Officers! Before the 2008 election I had people I considered friends who are Black, skin color wasn't an issue with me. After the election everything in their lives became about Race, they would get offended or frightened over the most insignificant or imagined slight. We have all known people that would get some type of promotion and it would go to their head. Obama was their promotion and Police assaults and Riots are the result.

Doctor: Now tell me Mr Smith, when was it do you think that you started getting these premonitions of approaching death?

Smith: Well Doctor, I guess they started around the time President Obama signed the Affordable Health Care Act.

ACA's Hospital Penalties Help Save 50,000 Lives, $12 Billion

The Obama administration today said 50,000 fewer patients died in hospitals and $12 billion in “health care costs were saved” due in part to initiatives woven into the Affordable Care Act that helped reduce hospital-acquired infections from 2010 to 2013.

Many of the initiatives, such as Medicare reimbursement incentives to improve quality as well as penalties for hospitals that re-admit patients within 30 days from errors and hospital acquired infections, were part of the health law signed into law by President Obama.

The report, linked here, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shows 1.3 million fewer hospital-acquired conditions from 2010 to 2013. Infections acquired included everything from an illness acquired from a misplaced catheter to acquiring the superbug known as  MRSA.

“These data represent significant progress in improving the quality of care that patients receive while spending our health care dollars more wisely,” Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell said in a statement accompanying the report.  “HHS will work with partners across the country to continue to build on this progress.”

The effort, while controversial among some providers of medical care, was cheered by the health care industry.

“Never before have we been able to bring so many hospitals, clinicians and experts together to share in a common goal – improving patient care,” Rich Umbdenstock, chief executive of the American Hospital Association said. “We have built an ‘infrastructure of improvement’ that will aid hospitals and the health care field for years to come and has spurred the results you see today. We applaud HHS for having the vision to support these efforts and look forward to our continued partnership to keep patients safe and healthy.”

Dr. Patrick Conway, deputy administrator for innovation and quality at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said the agency continues to work with medical care providers on tools linked here to reduce their hospital acquired infection rates.

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“As a practicing physician in the hospital setting, I know how important it is to keep patients as safe as possible,” Conway, CMS’ chief medical officer, said.  “These collaborative efforts are rapidly moving health care safety in the right direction.”