Betsy McCaughey: Obamacare Could Cost 35,000 Elderly Patients Their Lives Every Year

Betsy McCaughey: Obamacare Could Cost 35,000 Elderly Patients Their Lives Every Year
Posted By Accuracy In Media
In recent remarks to the AIM conference, "ObamaNation: A Day of Truth [1]," Betsy McCaughey said that the regulations and cuts in Barack Obama's healthcare law could lead to the deaths of 35,000 hospital patients who otherwise might have recovered, had they received the care available at a higher spending institution.

McCaughey, the former Lt. Governor of New York and an expert on the new healthcare law, cited the drastic cuts to Medicare in detailing how seniors will suffer under the provisions of the law. McCaughey is the author of two books on Obamacare: Obama Health Law: What It Says and How to Overturn It [2] and Decoding the Obama Health Law: What You Need To Know [3].
McCaughey cited a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which shows that over a four year period, in California, "nearly 14,000 seniors with common conditions-stroke, pneumonia, heart attack, congestive heart failure, hip fractures, and others, died in low-spending hospitals-bottom quintile-but would have survived and recovered and gone home had they received the care available at a higher spending hospital." She said, "despite this evidence-in fact, in disregard of this evidence-the Obama administration is pushing hospitals in all 50 states to imitate the low-spending hospitals where the death rates are higher!" McCaughey concluded that "It is reasonable to predict, based on this evidence, that the regulations and cuts in this law will cost at least 35,000 elderly patients their lives every year. 35,000 patients in hospitals, dying, who could have recovered had they received the care available at a higher spending institution."
Not only will Obamacare "cut $247 billion of future funding for payments to hospitals over the next decade," said McCaughey, in a follow-up interview, "In October 2012, the Obama administration will start awarding 'bonus points' to the hospitals that spend the least per senior…And it whacks the higher spending hospitals with demerits, not only for what they spend on a patient while the patient is in the hospital, but also what is spent on that patient for the three months after hospitalization. So hospitals also get hit with demerits for recommending physical therapy after the patient leaves the hospital, or even recommending a doctor's visit; it's all counted. These regulations are not going to wring out the fraud, waste, and abuse. No, they are going to force these hospitals to provide a lower standard of care."
Watch Betsy McCaughey's interview here:

Watch Betsy McCaughey's full speech below, and watch it with the transcript here [4]:


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URLs in this post:
[1] ObamaNation: A Day of Truth: http://www.aim.org/obamanation-a-day-of-truth-schedule/
[2] Obama Health Law: What It Says and How to Overturn It: http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Health-Law-Encounter-Broadsides/dp/1594035067/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349923304&sr=8-1&keywords=betsy+mccaughey
[3] Decoding the Obama Health Law: What You Need To Know: http://www.amazon.com/Decoding-Obama-Health-Law-ebook/dp/B007P62E7O/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1349923359&sr=8-2&keywords=betsy+mccaughey
[4] watch it with the transcript here: http://www.aim.org/video/betsy-mccaughey-scientific-evidence-proves-obamacare-will-harm-seniors/
 
 
 

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