Let us not forget that Obamacare was touted as a way to control healthcare costs...
costs which have greatly increased due to government regulations. The spend decades writing stupid regulations that have really no benefit, then use the resulting costs as an excuse to seize control of the entire field.
Our dialysis clinic was inspected a few months ago...but because a couple of us spend time reading AAMI and Medicare regs, we were in fairly good shape. Some of the things the Medicare inspectors insisted were:
Staff cannot have drinks at the nurse stations. Even something like a pop bottle, with a sealed top. All drinks must be kept in a kitchen area or some other location "off the floor."
Staff cannot apply chap stick on the floor or at the nurse station, they have to go the the bathroom or kitchen to apply chap stick or other lip sticks.
Staff responding to an alarm in the RO room or going to the lobby for any reason must stop and remove their booties and jackets, then replace their booties with new and put their jackets back on before coming back onto the floor. Now, that would make sense if the floor were covered with blood...or if they worked in a sterile operating room. But an area where the patients walk in and out, carry bags and blankets in and out, bring their own food and drink in???
But some government yahoo justified his/her job by writing stupid crap like that...and you can bet this kind of stuff is everywhere in healthcare.
