Code Blue for the ER
Oklahomans are using their local emergency rooms for primary health care creating a critical care situation for the system. Recent legislation and debates have centered around the escalating costs of healthcare in Oklahoma and across the nation. The debate centers around healthcare delivery and so-called "frivolous lawsuits." Read this story posted yesterday by Newsweek and let us know what you think about this issue.
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This Newsweek article would suggest that it is not out-of-control lawsuits and frivolous tort cases that are causing the crisis in America's hospitals - but more likely, the fact that the specialists are taking the high profit procedures out of the community hospitals, to their private specialty hospitals, leaving the community facilities with only the enormous numbers of uninsured patients and the very low revenues associated with emergency room and indigent care. Where are the legislators calling for an end to specialty hospitals which are, in effect, sending our community hospitals into a "code blue"? The people who are getting rich here, at the expense of taxpayers and indigents, are the same doctors who are complaining about run-away verdicts...
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