About 1.5 percent of those patients, or 15,000 people a month, suffered a complication that contributed to their death, the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services said.
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Medicare chief seeks better hospital safety
Posted on 17 November 2010.
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New Medicare chief says don’t ration health care
Posted on 15 September 2010.
Berwick broke his silence yesterday, telling an audience of health insurance industry representatives that pushing back against unsustainable costs cannot and should not involve “withholding from us, or our neighbors, any care that helps’’ or “harming one hair on anyone’s head.”
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