According to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical ociation (JAMA), over 225,000 people die each year due to medical malpractice and nearly half of these are from emergency room errors. Medical malpractice has become the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer.

Medical Malpratice is no myth

The JAMA article also broke down the following medical malpractice statistics:

* 12,000 deaths/year from unnecessary surgery
* 7,000 deaths/year from medication errors in hospitals
* 20,000 deaths/year from other errors in hospitals
* 80,000 deaths/year from infections in hospitals
* 106,000 deaths/year from non-error, adverse effects of medication

A 2006 follow-up to the 1999 Institute of Medicine study found that medication errors are among the most common medical mistakes, harming at least 1.5 million people every year. According to the study, 400,000 preventable drug-related injuries occur each year in hospitals, 800,000 in long-term care settings, and roughly 530,000 among Medicare recipients in outpatient clinics. The report stated that these are likely to be conservative estimates.

400,000 Medication Malpractice Injuries
225,000 Errors Related to Malpractice Deaths
625,000 Total Malpractice Cases in Hospitals
40,000,000 Total Hospital Admissions
0.0156 98.44% Efficiency Rate

OTHER MYTHS

Administration Costs 400 bil, 30% to 50% BIR related

Medical Equipment Costs

53,000,000,000Total Medical Equipment Revenue

23,850,000,00045% surgical supplies600 room and board
21,200,000,00040% equiptment

I took on the conventional wisdom that an aging population is driving U.S. hospital bills higher. The truth is that a combination of spending on new construction and hi-tech equipment pushed the nations hospital bill to $648.2 billion in 2006 —up 7 percent from 2005. The uptick was part of a trend: since 2000, outlays for hospital care have climbed anywhere from 5.2 percent (2000) to 8 percent (2003) each and every year. As a result, by 2006, spending on hospitals represented nearly one-third of the $2.1 trillion we shelled out for health care that year, stated Maggie Mahar in the blog Health Beat.

Actionable steps

Insurance bubble - Mortgage Crisis

Prescription Drugs - we have what we have and we have no more. quite financing this.

Coca-Cola sells product for 30 cents

AFRICANS buy 36 billion bottles of Coke a year. Because the price is set so low—around 20-30 American cents

http://www.economist.com/world/mideast-africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11670946

Money we dont have
Robbing individuals

Grandma Myth

Not sure if they want to kill grandmom with death panels but is sure seems they want to bleed her dry

The biggest year of the boom was 1957, when 4.3 million boomers were born. Why it took over 10 years for so many post-World War II families to get going is a matter of speculation. For the 5-year period between 1956 and 1960, inclusive, 21.2 million boomers were born, nearly 1 1/2 times the number born between 1941 and 1945, and the largest for any 5-year period in the 20th century.

These boomers reach 65+ in 2017-2023

SOURCES
http://www.economist.com/world/mideast-africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11670946
http://medicalmalpracticelawblog.com/2008/10/31/statistics-on-medical-malpractice-lawsuits/
http://www.resource4medicalmalpractice.com/topics/medicalmalpracticefacts.html
http://www.medical-malpractice-attorney-source.com/medical_malpractice/statistics.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort_reform
http://www.answers.com/topic/medical-malpractice
http://www.bbhq.com/bomrstat.htm

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Click more info http://www.NelsonIdeas.com http://www.PartyTentCity.com Stimulus Thoughts by Bob Click http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=7k5CV4OVAIk I would suggest you use your Stimulus Package to Jump Start The Economy and Create more manufacturing jobs. Just spend your check at Wal-Mart where you can get most everything made in China. By spending your stimulus package you will keep the economy in the USA growing. It will help get the get the USA out of trillions of dollars of debt. It will keep the USA from going into a depression with the rest of the world. Have you seen the movie I.O.U.S.A. It is a real mind opener.
I am really getting excited about getting my stimulus package.
I will take my USA check down to Wal-Mart.
I will buy as many things as possible, even if they are all made in China.
This will create manufacturing jobs for the people who make the products
I buy.
This will help jump start the USA economy.
It will help cut our national debt.
I want to help to get the USA economy going and create more jobs.
What are you going to do with your stimulus package?
Comment below.
Brian Nelson, Houston, Texas 713-467-3025.

Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 and Section 179
In order to address concerns regarding a slowing economy, President Bush asked Congress to come up with an Economic Stimulus Plan that will benefit both consumers and businesses, and Congress responded with a comprehensive economic stimulus package.
On February 13, 2008, President Bush signed H.R. 5140, otherwise known as the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008. The Economic Stimulus Act immediately grabbed headlines because most Americans would receive a check for $600 from Uncle Sam. While the Economic Stimulus Act is a boon for consumers, there are significant benefits in the Economic Stimulus Act for businesses as well.
In fact, Small Business stands to benefit a great deal from the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008. This is because the Section 179 Deduction limits have been generously increased, and small businesses across the country will reap the rewards.
How your business will benefit from the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008
The Section 179 Deduction has been significantly enhanced by the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, and has given businesses an incentive to invest in themselves by purchasing or leasing new equipment.

The specific impact the Economic Stimulus Act has had on the Section 179 deduction is related to the dollar limits of the deduction. The previous dollar limits were a $125,000 limit on the deduction and the total amount of equipment purchased could not exceed $500,000. The Economic Stimulus Act raise these limits significantly. The new deduction limits are $250,000 on the deduction, and the total amount of equipment purchased cannot exceed $800,000.

To recap the new limits:
2007 Deduction Limit: $125,000
2008 Deduction Limit: $250,000
2007 Total Amount of Equipment: $500,000
(deduction decreases dollar for dollar after reached)
2008 Total Amount of Equipment: $800,000
(deduction decreases dollar for dollar after reached)

Bonus Deduction
Another change that the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 brings to Section 179 is it offers a one-time bonus first year depreciation of 50% on qualifying equipment. This is after the above deduction limit is reached.

In other words, if you buy enough equipment to exceed the $250,000 deduction, you can take a bonus 50% depreciation on the rest this is in addition to normal depreciation

Everyone Benefits
Most small and medium-size businesses will find these new dollar limits generous indeed. The Economic Stimulus Act is going to help consumers, and it will also significantly help most small businesses as well by lowering the cost of equipment that they need to purchase or lease to run their day-to-day operations. The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries. It was the largest and most important economic depression in modern history, and is used in the 21st century as an example of how far the world’s economy can fall[] The Great Depression originated in the United States; historians most often use as a starting date the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Thursday. The end of the depression in the U.S is ociated with the onset of the war economy of World War II, beginning around 1939.
The depression had devastating effects in virtually every country, rich or poor. International trade plunged by half to two-thirds, as did personal incomes, tax revenues, prices, and profits. Cities all around the world were hit hard, especially those dependent on heavy industry. Construction was virtually halted in many countries. Farming and rural areas suffered as crop prices fell by roughly 60 percent.

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