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...patients. "All Saints [Hospital] is in the business of flipping beds," Jackie tells a colleague. "That's it. End of story. The fact that you have even the slightest inclination to help people puts you miles ahead of 100% of the population." (In real life, Falco is a health-care-reform activist.) Jada Pinkett Smith also plays an overworked nurse taking on bureaucracy, on TNT's Hawthorne. On NBC's fall drama Trauma (not to be confused with CBS's Miami Trauma), a supervisor warns a paramedic not to let a mother assist with her son's emergency tracheotomy...
These ideal images, though, may only make people more critical when real-life care doesn't measure up. CBS's fall debut Three Rivers, set at an élite transplant center, could underscore our luck-of-the-draw access to lifesaving resources. Or it could remind viewers of the top-shelf procedures that Obama's critics say will be threatened by "socialized" solutions...
...thing Obama may have going for him is timing. In 1994, ER made it on air just as the Clinton plan was declared dead. This time the politics and the programming are in sync. Now to see if the U.S. is a country truly ready for health-care change, or if it just plays...
Even as Congress struggles with how to pay for health-care reform, the White House keeps doing its best to accentuate the positive. Last week, Vice President Joe Biden hosted the country's three largest hospital trade groups as they announced they will accept $155 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts over the next 10 years. It's all part of an inspiring storyline, the idea that everyone is doing their part to make this most ambitious undertaking a reality. But no one actually thinks that the hospitals - or for that matter other key players like pharmaceutical manufacturers or doctors...
Specialty hospitals that focus on providing care for children or cancer patients have long existed, but the target of the House legislation is something else entirely - for-profit health-care facilities owned by doctors that perform some of the most lucrative medical procedures in fields like orthopedics and cardiology. There are now some 220 such facilities operating mostly in the South and Midwest - up from 110 in 2001 - generating some $40 billion in annual revenue. According to Sandvig, more than 80 additional facilities are currently under development. (Read "Starting Health-Care Reform...