Tenet Healthcare, which is a partner of the Clinton Foundation, has an exceptionally high infant mortality rate of 12.5% in Florida, almost 3x the national average. Instead of trying to improve their care, Tenet healthcare paid Florida Governor Rick Scott $200,000 in campaign contributions and Scott then repealed all of Florida's pediatric heart surgery standards.
Article is found here.
Since Tenet Healthcare may be illegally harvesting organs it stands to reason that removing these heart surgery standards would only make their job even easier by removing even a pretense of responsibility.
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It bears mentioning that Tenet Healthcare also has a history of performing unnecessary heart surgeries and procedures and was once forced to pay a $395 settlement.
Tenet's proud recovery fell apart in October 2002. A market analyst and an insurer who was subcontracted to make Medicare payments for government both noted independently that Tenet's rejuvenated profits resulted from a massive growth in "outlier payments" when compared with competitors. These are extra payments made to hospitals for the care of high risk patients and for complex procedures. At the same time the FBI raided one of Tenet's most profitable hospitals accusing its doctors of carrying out large numbers of unnecessary heart procedures and surgical operations. These are the sort of procedures that attract outlier payments. Authorities simultaneously commenced an investigation into Tenet's merger practices
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quantokitty ago
Great research.
The doctors who perform unnecessary surgeries should be in jail.
Tanngrisnir ago
Thank you! And definitely. They rightfully should be. But now they are probably able to legally intentionally have the surgery rooms dirty and use unsterilized tools to try to get the heart patients to die during surgery so they can steal the organs. It boggles the mind if you think about it.
quantokitty ago
Absolutely.
Think about those unnecessary surgeries on their own, wouldn't they in itself weaken the patient? Also what were they doing? Surgically removing healthy heart valves and replacing them with artificial ones? They could then sell the healthy ones.
The whole thing is disgusting. Money truly is the root of all evil.