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As a brief overview for those who don't know, hospitals and other providers get "grades" by the federal government and these grades are tied to government reimbursement rates through Medicare/Medicaid. As part of this process, a company called Leapfrog sends out surveys. In the past, they asked about whether the hospital has certain quality measures in place, infection practices, and so forth. In 2022, they are running "optional" questions about equity and inclusion. See here. Those optional questions usually become mandatory later. In other words, your health care provider will get government points for asking about things like your gender identity and preferred pronouns. A lot of places already do that here, but I know many people have not experienced it and think if they live in a "red" state and not on a college campus then they'll avoid the woke world. But, this will relate to every hospital and medical provider in the US. So, if you don't have a gender identity, preferred pronoun, sexual orientation, or the like, you'll need to figure all that out soon.
Meh, lmk when something happens that actually matters. Like healthcare actually being affordable. Now that's news.
I wasn't quickly able to find a link but what OP posted doesn't surprise me after many years in the government healthcare programs sector. And it could very well impact the cost of healthcare, believe it or not. It is not unusual for federal programs like CMS or the SEC to have "voluntary" or "optional" questions for a few years which the agency will then "study." If the agency determines there is a problem then the questions are no longer optional. And those questions OP references feed into a provider's STARs scores, which impacts the amount of funding they can get and the way they are portrayed on the CMS website.
I wasn't quickly able to find a link but what OP posted doesn't surprise me after many years in the government healthcare programs sector. And it could very well impact the cost of healthcare, believe it or not. It is not unusual for federal programs like CMS or the SEC to have "voluntary" or "optional" questions for a few years which the agency will then "study." If the agency determines there is a problem then the questions are no longer optional. And those questions OP references feed into a provider's STARs scores, which impacts the amount of funding they can get and the way they are portrayed on the CMS website.
So you had other "social" optional questions in years prior that are now mandatory?
As a brief overview for those who don't know, hospitals and other providers get "grades" by the federal government and these grades are tied to government reimbursement rates through Medicare/Medicaid. As part of this process, a company called Leapfrog sends out surveys. In the past, they asked about whether the hospital has certain quality measures in place, infection practices, and so forth. In 2022, they are running "optional" questions about equity and inclusion. See here. Those optional questions usually become mandatory later. In other words, your health care provider will get government points for asking about things like your gender identity and preferred pronouns. A lot of places already do that here, but I know many people have not experienced it and think if they live in a "red" state and not on a college campus then they'll avoid the woke world. But, this will relate to every hospital and medical provider in the US. So, if you don't have a gender identity, preferred pronoun, sexual orientation, or the like, you'll need to figure all that out soon.
One has to be careful and try not to entangle the politics and the medical, as far as inclusiveness. Because in medicine we have to treat all comers, and do our best to keep politics out of the face to face medical encounter. The patient is most important, and we always have to work in their best interests. Whatever those are, and within medical reason.
One has to be careful and try not to entangle the politics and the medical, as far as inclusiveness. Because in medicine we have to treat all comers, and do our best to keep politics out of the face to face medical encounter. The patient is most important, and we always have to work in their best interests. Whatever those are, and within medical reason.
I don’t disagree. But it seems to be the government that’s injecting politics into healthcare.
I don’t disagree. But it seems to be the government that’s injecting politics into healthcare.
That would be the impression looking politically. But medically it has to be. And remain apolitical with the central focus on the best interests of the patients.
As a brief overview for those who don't know, hospitals and other providers get "grades" by the federal government and these grades are tied to government reimbursement rates through Medicare/Medicaid. As part of this process, a company called Leapfrog sends out surveys. In the past, they asked about whether the hospital has certain quality measures in place, infection practices, and so forth. In 2022, they are running "optional" questions about equity and inclusion. See here. Those optional questions usually become mandatory later. In other words, your health care provider will get government points for asking about things like your gender identity and preferred pronouns. A lot of places already do that here, but I know many people have not experienced it and think if they live in a "red" state and not on a college campus then they'll avoid the woke world. But, this will relate to every hospital and medical provider in the US. So, if you don't have a gender identity, preferred pronoun, sexual orientation, or the like, you'll need to figure all that out soon.
I posted this already one here. Critical theory ideology which stems from Marxism has taken over the United States and much of the Anglo Saxon world. The death of George Floyd pushed those who participate the ideology even further into our institutions. The difference with Critical theory vs mainline Marxism is that class not a issue and that issue is culture within society. LGBT are oppressed by straights, women are oppressed by men, blacks are oppressed by whites and white adjacent people etc. This stuff is known as conflict theory. Marx has changed the world. Marx help create the Soviet Union, Facist Italy, communist China and Nazi Germany. All of such nations turned against the ideals of the enlightment and against liberalism. Critical Theory is no different which is against liberalism and is against the enlightment. But Critical theorist sure love capitalist money though just like communists and nazis of the past. And the notion of equality is dead, critical theorist belive in equity over equality which equality is an enlightment virtue which for many did not work.
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