{"id":129483,"date":"2016-01-14T13:29:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/because-what-are-a-few-dead-kids-when-theres-money-to-be-made.html"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:36:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T05:36:40","slug":"because-what-are-a-few-dead-kids-when-theres-money-to-be-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/because-what-are-a-few-dead-kids-when-theres-money-to-be-made.html","title":{"rendered":"Because what are a few dead kids when there's money to be made?"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Big scandal over how a Tenet hospital in Florida was badly failing state standards for child cardiac care. These were standards that have been around for nearly 40 years, and made Florida a national model for such things. The hospital had a disturbingly high rate of child cardiac deaths.<\/p>\n

The brouhaha was enough that the hospital CEO resigned and the hospital shut down the pediatric cardiac surgery unit.<\/p>\n

2. Tenet makes major contributions to the GOP in Florida.<\/p>\n

3. The GOP administration of Rick Scott gets rid of the standards. Which won't save lives, of course, but does mean that people can't complain about hospitals owned by big donors not meeting standards, if there are no standards to meet.<\/p>\n

A Florida judge has ruled the standards can be nixed because concerned parents haven't proven that their loss will mean quality of health care will go down. After all, the judge noted, most people have a natural inclination to do quality work, so regulations aren't really necessary.<\/p>\n

There are other shenanigans described (the state leaning on a medical group to not write critical reviews of the hospital in question, or even discuss the problems there, etc.), but you get the picture.<\/p>\n

Best government money can buy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nFlorida dumps hospital standards after gifts to GOP – CNN.com<\/a><\/span>
\nThe state of Florida is putting kids with heart defects at risk, cardiac doctors say, because of a change in policy that came after contributions to Republicans.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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