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Insurance to the uninsured or in order to improve the quality of health care. 98,000 patients are killed every year in the united states as a result of preventable medical errors. and the focus should be not on taking their rights away but on patient safety. improves patient safety. every week in this country we have 48 wrong-sided surgeries. every year we have 2 million hospital-acquired infections. many of which could be -- the number of which could be reduced substantially with simple hand wa...

Hospital-acquired infections. many of which could be -- the number of which could be reduced substantially with simple hand washing programs. countless medication errors year after year which could be reduced with simple changes, electronic and bar coding of medication orders. when a patient through no fault of his or her own is overdosed or given the wrong medication they shouldnt have their rights taken away. with respect to defensive medicine i have to say the proof is in the pudding. in stat...