September 10, 2009 - Off the Charts

Obama Follows Up Reform Speech By Addressing Nurses (including AJN’s Diana Mason) at White House

Said President Obama this morning, to a White House audience of nurse leaders (including Diana Mason, AJN‘s editor-in-chief emeritus): “You’re the bedrock of our medical system. . . Few people understand . . . as you do why we need reform.” Click the image above to go to a page where you can watch the full speech, and be sure to check back here for Mason’s account of her visit to the White House.

Jacob Molyneux, senior editor/blog editor2016-11-21T13:22:35-05:00September 10th, 2009|career, health care policy, nursing perspective|0 Comments

Health Care Reform Must Target Hospitals, Physicians Who Push Expensive Treatments Over Prevention

But the cost of the hospitalization alone for an uncomplicated bariatric surgery is now about $28,000. That goes up to over $38,000 if complications arise—and almost $70,000 if the patient has to be readmitted. Now, what if a patient decides he'd like to go to a nutritionist every week for several years to gradually lose the weight and change his eating habits permanently? Let's say that the cost of seeing a nutritionist is $100 per visit—that's just over $15,000, but who's paying to put up signs advertising a hospital's nutritional service for weight loss ?