Fewer Patients Have Been Dying From Hospital Errors Since Obamacare Started
Thierry Dosogne via Getty Images Hospitals have cut down on deadly medical errors, saving around 87,000 lives since 2010, according to a new government report. The new report comes from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services and is something like an in-house think tank dedicated to making medical care safer and more effective. Based on the existing research about what happens to patients who get sick in the hospital and what it costs to treat them afterwards, that decline works out to roughly 87,000 lives saved and $19.8 billion not spent on extra medical care, according to the report. But after the agency published last year’s results, showing the steep decline in errors, a wide array of experts said the law's new incentives were influencing hospital behavior -- and that, as a result, patients were getting better care.
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