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Hospitals - Good Quality or just Good Surveys? You Decide!

By The Grouch at Right Truth

Did you know that Medicare pays hospitals based on the “quality of care” provided by the hospital? They withhold payment to hospitals that don’t “measure up”.

Did you know that Medicare uses patient surveys to determine the quality of care provided by the hospital?

Did you know that most lay people don’t really understand many of the questions asked on these surveys as they relate to quality? Many of the surveys are also completed by family members because the patient is unable to do so.

Did you know that Medicare grades hospitals on a comparison curve and that a hospital with raw scores in the low to mid 90’s will still be penalized? Only hospitals near the 100th percentile will not be penalized. I’m told this amounts to about 3 percent of hospitals.  (continue reading at The Grouch at Right Truth)

 

Death Panels Are HERE

By the Grouch at Right Truth:

Today while working my shift in the emergency room, an old lady was brought in very sick and in fact near death. I did my usual workup and evaluation and attempted to administer life saving treatment. It was my plan to admit this woman to the hospital. I found out a little later that this same woman had been a patient here just slightly more than 2 weeks ago with a DIFFERENT DIAGNOSIS. I was told that if this woman was admitted, the hospital would not be paid.

The new Medicare rule now is that if the same Medicare patient is re-admitted to the hospital within 30 days, the hospital will not be paid. When they first started this nonsense they said this only applied to patients with the same diagnosis. Now they have "expanded" the rule to include re-admissions for any reason. So if you're in the hospital for pneumonia, and 3 weeks later, you break your leg.......too bad. Medicare will not pay the hospital to fix your leg.

A little later a man was brought in by ambulance, very sick, in pain, and near death. I did my usual evaluation and treatment, doing my best to ease pain and stabilize this man's illness. He needed to be admitted. To my chagrin I found out that he had been treated for the SAME problem at a DIFFERENT HOSPITAL about 10 days prior. If I admitted this man, our hospital would be paid nothing. I admitted the man.

My friends I am caught in a terrible position. (continue reading at the Grouch at Right Truth)

 

Alert: Critical Medicines in Short Supply

The Grouch reports that essential medicines that we have used in the hospital for many years have suddenly fallen into short supply. Some are actually unavailable any longer.  What medications?  Why are they in short supply?  Are equivalent substitute drugs available?  What can you do to correct the situation? 

This information is not something the average American will hear about, but you can go read the details here:  

http://grouchatrighttruth.blogspot.com/2012/03/critical-medicines-in-short-supply.html

Spread the word.

 

 

Joe Biden Elects Himself President in 2013

Joe Biden Elects Himself President in 2013

By The Grouch

The summer of 2012 was one of turmoil. The Republican primary remained hotly contested up until the convention. Mitt Romney eventually prevailed and named governor Chris Christie from New Jersey as his running mate.

On May 5, 2012, Israel conducted surgical strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. The immediate results of these strikes were unclear but as the United States stood idly by, the Arab outrage against Israel and the west increased exponentially and by June, gasoline prices in the US averaged 8 dollars per gallon. Whatever so called economic recovery the mainstream media had tried to invent was shattered. In spite of attempts to cover the facts, the unemployment rate charged up to around 11 percent and the stock market took a tumble below 8000 by the beginning of July.  (continue reading at The Grouch at Right Truth)

The Jesus Card

Via the Grouch:

Well, here is another report on the LOONEY FACEBOOK LIBERALS. Trust me folks, it is just the gift that keeps on giving and giving and giving.

Well now 2 of these liberals, both women, have accused me of not being a "good Christian". Funny how there are people out there that really don't even know you who think it is their place to lecture you about your morality and your salvation.

I gathered that they developed this opinion when I defended the Republican congress for refusing to go along...   (continue at The Grouch)

 

Newt Gingrich sails the seas as his starff jumps ship. Good!

Evidently the top tier of Newt Gingrich's campaign staff is jumping ship. GOOD! Re-run RINO Newt needs to go down in flames. The scuttlebutt says that the defectors are planning on joining up with Texas governor, Rick Perry as he considers a "serious" run for the White House.

Continue reading Dump Newt at the Grouch at Right Truth.

She's A Lady

Original song written and performed by the Morbid Strangers band, a nice change of pace from politics and terror:

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When Illusion Meets Reality

I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas, got all the presents you wanted, spent time with family and friends and didn't eat too much yummy food.  Another Christmas is almost over, but the memories will stay with us until we celebrate again next year.  Let us not forget to be thankful each day for our Lord.  Let us never fail to talk with him, seek out his guidance in our lives and his loving protection as we go about the next 365 days.

We are happy, healthy, blessed and very thankful.  We take nothing for granted.  Sweet hubby, sneaky sweet elf, was very sneaky this year.  He gave me scented candles, which I always like.  He gave me gift cards.  But the sneaky part was that hubby gave me not one, but two, beautiful necklaces for Christmas.

I don't wear a lot of jewelry any more, but I do always wear a necklace.  These two necklaces are beautiful.  I will wear them proudly and regularly because 1) they are given with love from the love of my life;  2) they are made by crafted hands and are works of art'  3) they are made from elements created by God and mined from the earth that he created - gold, emerald, diamond.

I read at another blog, I can't remember where now, that many people this year are ashamed to tell people what they get, hesitant to tell what they have, because elements of our society and politics have made success a negative thing, a thing to be ashamed of. 

For some reason those in Washington have vilified anyone who works hard and makes it on their own and conversely lifted up those who have less, as if the successful somehow robbed those less fortunate.  Those who have worked hard to educate themselves, to get a good job, to keep a good job, to pay their bills and live within their means are shamed because everyone isn't equal.

Well everything isn't equal, it never has been and never will be.  I will wear these necklaces proudly. 

For some reason this reminds me of something Mark Steyn said.

What happens when reality kicks some Liberal's lofty illusions in the teeth?  You have a collision of illusion and reality, and it's not pretty.  Listening to Mark Steyn filling in for Rush Limbaugh this week was pure joy.   The first caller was a woman named Shannon I think, who called herself an "educator".  She made some stupid comment that "war never accomplished anything".  Other callers, along with Steyn, proceeded to 'educate' the educator that, in fact, war has accomplished much including the creation of this great nation. 

Steyn said that the t-shirt Shannon was probably wearing with the peace symbol on it wouldn't do anything to protect her when evil knocks on her door.  That's when illusion meets reality.  This analogy could be used for any number of silly statements and actions by the Left.  It's easy to live in ivory towers, spouting niceties, but when reality hits those illusions we see how rice-paper thin they really are.

This kind of thinking is one of the problems the United States is suffering from today -- illusions.  Illusions that everybody has a right to job, home, insurance, car, internet, HDTV, and on and on.  By right the Progressives actually mean every person must have everything, but somebody must pay for all of this.  Illusion meets reality again.

At some point most of you reading this will get tired of working and having a third or more of your income taken away to provide for the rights of others.  This can't go on forever. The few cannot continue to carry more and more of a nation's burden on them without snapping. 

Be proud of what you have, you worked for it, you earned it.

 

A local politician gets educated, the hard way

Oh Snap!  Read it here, you'll love it!

The Black Boy Has No Rhythm - Politics

At a local street fair several years ago, the Grouch was playing music with a band he is no longer associated with, in which the drummer happened to be the 15 year old son of the lead singer -- and could that boy play.  This drummer was so good he could play with one hand and text message his girlfriend with the other and never miss a beat.  And by the way, he was Black.

The sun was just drifting below the horizon, the band was into a great old Rock-n-Roll tune, the chairs provided for the audience were filling up quickly.  I was milling around welcoming the listeners, passing out cards for the band, when one elderly White woman stopped me and asked if I was with the band.  I told her yes I was with the band and could I help her in any way.  She said, "The drummer has no rhythm."  To which I was dumbfounded.

I don't know if this woman really thought he had no rhythm or she just didn't like the fact that he was Black.  There are still a few people who are racist.  

I don't know why I remembered this single incident, except that our current President Barack Obama is losing favor with his base rapidly and it occurred to me that going into the 2010 elections headed toward 2012, the president has no rhythm.

Bill Clinton seems to be doing better on the campaign trail than Obama when campaigning for Democrats.  Some Democrat candidates don't want Obama campaigning for them.

There are rumors that Obama may dump Joe Biden as Vice President and ask Hillary Clinton to join him.  It's very doubtful that Hillary will do that since Obama's poll numbers are so low.  Her operatives are working behind the scenes and in front of the cameras dissing Obama perhaps in preparation for a run for the top seat by Hillary in 2012.  Why should she settle for second best when she has a good chance at the White House?  Bill may be paving the way for her even now.

A poll by States shows that Obama's approval numbers are dropping and will most likely have a big impact on votes in November 2010.

Around the world, he Arabs, who celebrated in the streets around the world when Obama was elected, are now fed up with him according to the polls.  Even our friends have been alienated to the point few have anything good to say about Obama.  The general opinion is this isn't going to improve, even though some in the media try to prop him up.

...this fall in numbers is not a fluke, but a trend. The political landscape in the  United States has created a perfect storm that the President's poll numbers will not be able to escape. With the oil spill in the Gulf, the economy performing poorly and the coming November elections, the President will never see his poll numbers rise to what they used to be.  (more)

So it seems the dream candidate put forth by the far Left Liberal Progressives in this country isn't paying off the dividends they had expected.  The historic, first Black president, ideal because he was primed from his early years for the position, because he was half-Black and half-White, because he was supposed to be the messiah, the one, to change this country from its foundation into something that was never intended nor wanted by the voting public. 

While Obama has done great damage to our nation, with the support and praise of a few, -- it seems he has lost his mojo.  There must be some mighty disappointed Democratic operatives.

It seems the Black boy no longer has any rhythm.  For this we can rejoice.  I'd say the same thing if he were White, or Brown, or Yellow.