A fine bit of reporting on the fact that some local hospitals and hospital staff are engaging in coverups when patients are ignored, hurt, or die

The New York Daily News has a fine piece today about the problem with local hospitals playing CYA after patients are ignored for care, injured by doctor hacks, or die. Records are being changed after the fact, cover-ups are employed to protect the hospital, and official reports are being falsified.

Here's a hook to get you mad enough to go read it:

Logs for a respirator were changed after staff failed to notice it wasn't turned on. The patient died.

Again we don't get too involved in national issues but these are the very excuses opponents of a possible national health care plan are using as scare stories that would come to pass if any kind of Obama plan is passed. No folks, they're happening NOW.