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minendo

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Assuming hospitals have a 95% survival rate of patients (customers), how would you feel if food suppliers held themselves to the same standards?

Sadly (how would you feel if), hospitals and insurance companies base their costs on the above?
 

Newbian

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What hospital are you going to?

And what place are you eating where 5% of the people eating will die?
 

darkxshade

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I think for survival rates of the hospital but wouldn't lower survival rates mean higher prices as they would have to pay out more if you die or get injured from something?


That's what I figured... you could also make the opposite case where a successful hospital would be more expensive but the OP said hospitals so there seem to be many.
 

Cerb

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Assuming hospitals have a 95% survival rate of patients (customers), how would you feel if food suppliers held themselves to the same standards?
Like it should be avoided. before modern knowledge of sanitation, food safety would need to have far exceeded that just for humans to survive.
 

Sunburn74

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Assuming hospitals have a 95% survival rate of patients (customers), how would you feel if food suppliers held themselves to the same standards?

Sadly (how would you feel if), hospitals and insurance companies base their costs on the above?

Not sure where you're pulling this idea from and its poorly held together but I will run with it. All that will happen is that insurance companies would do everything they could to select the healthies patients. Also you can twist numbers to reflect whatever you want. If a patient leaves the hospital and dies in hospice care 3 days later, he technically survived.

The best way to track hospital performance I would say is by chart reviewing 1 or 2 years out to see incidences of documented errors, questionable or superfluous medical practices/decisions/use of equipment (they say roughly 10-20 percent of bypass surgeries in this country are done superfluously for example) compared to similar hospitals in the region, and by frequency of adherence to nationally accepted guidelines for treatments and preventions of disease (dvt prophylaxis, gi prophylaxis, etc etc).

For example, its been well publicized that 7 percent of people quit smoking at the first request of their doctors, yet a staggering number of smokers report never having a discussion about smoking cessation with their physicians. Track stuff like that that rather than stuff that is already for the most part pre-determined (like survival from a gunshot wound to the head)
 
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cubby1223

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We are mortal, thus our survival rate is 0%. What if hospitals and insurance companies base their costs primarily on the fact that they cannot prevent us from dying?
 

DaveSimmons

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Do you go to the hospital 3 times a day?

Do you go to the hospital every morning even when you're feeling fine?

Comparing hospitals and food suppliers doesn't make much sense because there is already something wrong with you when you're hospitalized, usually something serious if they don't just bandage or stitch you up and send you home.
 
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