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From: DMaA9/1/2009 3:28:59 PM
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Reason # 3,236,543,543 why government is to blame for the high cost of health care:

By: Joan Lowy and Brett J. Blackledge, Associated Press


WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board wants better training and more sophisticated equipment for medical helicopters, and recommends limiting Medicare payments for emergency flights to operators who meet new safety standards.

The NTSB board approved recommendations today for the Federal Aviation Administration to require operators of helicopters flown for emergency medical services to, among other things, install automatic pilots, terrain awareness monitors and night-vision systems. The board also agreed to develop recommendations for the Department of Health and Human Services to provide Medicare payments only to emergency helicopter operators who pass safety audits.

The board’s action comes in response to a record nine fatal emergency helicopter crashes in which 35 people died between December 2007 and October 2008.

In Wisconsin, three people died in May 2008 when a University of Wisconsin Hospital Med Flight crashed in La Crosse. Dr. Darren Bean, flight nurse Mark Coyne and pilot Steve Lipperer were killed when the chopper crashed in the fog.

The crash raised questions about whether the crew had been equipped with the proper safety gear. Hospital officials later outfitted all flights with a Terrain Awareness and Warning System and night-vision goggles.
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