Posted on 01/14/2016 1:28:08 AM PST by sakic
The state of Florida is putting thousands of children with heart defects at risk, a group of cardiac doctors say, because of a change in policy that came after Tenet Healthcare contributed $200,000 to Florida Republicans.
In a widely publicized investigation in June, CNN revealed that a program at a Tenet hospital in Florida had failed to live up to state quality standards for children's heart surgery.
Less than two months later, the state decided to get rid of those standards.
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Am I thick headed this morning or did the CNN article omit the definition of the standards Florida was dumping. I have no idea what they were talking about.
I need more coffee.
How are they blaming the politicians? The hospital could have followed the same standards as before but the hospital chose not to.
What were the standards, and were they really necessary or were they burdensome regulations with no real health benefit?
Yeah, just abort the babies. That would make CNN happy.
Political contributions changed the rules for care of cardiac kids at a hospital with a horrific record. Seems pretty clear to me, but I will try and find out what these standards were.
Not sure how this might make it clearer, though.
Just goes to show that doctors are just as political as anyone else and the research they publish can be just as biased.
I’m confused as to how this makes doctors political. Is it because these particular doctors want to save more babies from an unnecessary death?
“Yeah, just abort the babies. That would make CNN happy.”
First rename the babies ‘fetus’ or ‘unwanted tissue’ and CNN would agree with you,
Funny thing though. An ultrasound on the Establishment still would not keep me from ‘aborting’ them politically.
The article is laced with it.
When you have groups making donations for favorability, getting that quid pro quo (to the detriment of the public), the surgeon general backing it up, and dissenting doctors fearing to identify themselves because of possible retaliation, it sounds a lot more like a political than medical environment to me.
Right, but the doctors/hospital could still have used the old standards. Unless the law forbade them from doing so the hospital made the choice to lower their standards.
Everything is political.
Lot of failure here to cut through the bull.
A hospital that was causing infants to die because of their own incompetence paid politicians to get off the hook and the politicians obeyed after their pockets got lined.
Unsure why everyone here is not disturbed by this. Is it because they are Republicans?
Until everyone realizes that the entire political system is corrupt, we will continue to be treated like dirt.
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