Our health care system stresses prevention of illness, said Grassley. It should also stress prevention of errors. We expect people to eat well, exercise and do all the right things to stay healthy. In return, they deserve careful medical treatment when they get sick. Through Medicare and Medicaid, we can work to reduce medical errors in almost every health facility in the country, said Lieberman.
Most people are patients at one point or another in their lives.
We need to make certain they are patients in the safest possible setting. Health care effects all of us from young to old and this legislation takes us in the right direction for safe and reliable services. Senator Bryan added, This legislation is a first attempt at correcting the staggering number of deadly medical errors that occur in this country. The bottom line is that we have got to do better, and this legislation will take the first step in improving this bleak situation. The bill also would establish a Center for Patient Safety to conduct research and dispense grants related to medical error reduction and it would afford providers with peer review confidentiality protections to cover the new error reduction reports.