{"id":3304,"date":"2016-06-23T08:36:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T12:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2016-06-23T08:36:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T12:36:53","slug":"saving-lives-and-saving-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3304","title":{"rendered":"Saving Lives And Saving Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By David Gorn, KQED, NPR for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Don Meade doesn\u2019t like hospitals, but he uses them. In just one year, he made 62 trips to the emergency room. He rattles off the names of local hospitals in Orange and Los Angeles counties like they\u2019re a handful of pills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSt. Joseph\u2019s in Orange, [Saddleback Memorial in] Laguna Hills,\u201d he says. \u201cThe best one for me around here is PIH in Whittier.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/saving-lives-and-saving-money\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=30925915&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--MD3bGFHiBc70d8JT4mbH71aM5GUpOhytP9K4TChzAbNOD86y7MC8d9LwHkDlREk6lOv66NtYyFunLaZsF_6Vo9ONT8A&amp;_hsmi=30925915\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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