RT reports:
General practitioners in England have been receiving £50 bonuses for placing patients on controversial ‘death lists’ in order to reduce the number of occupied hospital beds. The move is yet another tactic aimed at cutting NHS costs, UK media reported.
Each death which occurs outside an NHS hospital has been calculated to save the health system some £1,000 ($1,600) in England. On average, deaths which occur inside NHS hospitals cost the service around £3,065 (just under $5000), while those elsewhere cost £2,107 (around $3,400).
Doctors have been given bonuses for drawing up ‘end-of-life advanced care plans’ for patients they predict will die within a year.
The payments in question apparently have the intention of keeping NHS costs as low as possible.
According to documents seen by the Daily Mail on Sunday, a “key objective” of the project - which underwent a trial period in England’s east - was “to shift the place of death” away from hospitals, thus “reducing ...healthcare costs.”
(ht Brian Tague)
The socialists have no trouble understanding their incentive problem. When will they also understand the calculation problem?
ReplyDeleteWhen they learn basic math and reasoning skills. They're still in diapers so it will be awhile for those simpletons.
DeleteNot a bonus. More like a fee for doing all the paperwork after dealing with the family of the soon to be deceased. Hardly usury.
ReplyDeleteI hope so. Fifty lousy pounds, I hope American doctors would sell their souls for a little more than that.
Delete"Soon to be deceased." What a wonderful term, and with so many applications: old people, cronically ill people, tea partiers, citizens, etc.
Delete"Soon to be deceased." What a wonderful term, and with so many applications: old people, cronically ill people, tea partiers, citizens, etc.
DeleteComing to Amerika....
ReplyDeleteI would someone to defend this shit. Chris Postel? JWolfie?
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