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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (315655)	7/20/2009 8:56:56 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 793848

instead of calling most of the readmissions unnecessary, it would make more sense to conclude that most of the readmitted patients should not have been discharged in the first place? This is often true. However, often readmissions are related to the nature of the illness, like with recurrent infections, unstable coronary situations, CHF, or COPD with frequent flareups, etc. The amount of work involved in all those readmissions, as well as cost - is tremendous. What we need are less expensive hospitals - and also, perhaps, hospitals specializing in recurrent diseases. Usually people compare American healthcare costs to those of other nations in total numbers - wholesale. I would be interested in a comparison of specific items, like hospital costs per diem. Our costs - I expect - are dramatically higher. The cure would be through deregulation and getting rid of excessive controls.... rather than creating multitudes of new ones.