Jason Chaffetz, Speaker of the House?

[snowcat]

He may very well be having surgery on his foot. It just sounds weird how he explained it. If the hardware is at risk for infection now why wasn't it risk last year, or the year before that. It has been in his foot for 12 years. I put in a lot of hardware and I haven't ever taken it out except in the event of a real infection or some other demonstrable event - broken hardware, bone hasn't healed, hardware is painful. It seems fishy to me.

Maybe the Russians hacked his foot.

[falafel]

Maybe the Russians hacked his foot.

Actually or figuratively?

[wuapinmon]

I'm a bad person because I know schadenfreude is a sin, but it's so damned satisfying, even if there's no proof of a scandal.

[hostile]

Actually or figuratively?

That metal is Swiss

[PaloAltoCougar]

That metal is Swiss

It would be interesting to know the price of that metal. What looks like something you could get at Home Depot for a few bucks almost certainly has a hospital sticker price into the thousands. Of course, if Chaffetz in fact got his from Home Depot that might explain the infection.

[SteelBlue]

He may very well be having surgery on his foot. It just sounds weird how he explained it. If the hardware is at risk for infection now why wasn't it risk last year, or the year before that. It has been in his foot for 12 years. I put in a lot of hardware and I haven't ever taken it out except in the event of a real infection or some other demonstrable event - broken hardware, bone hasn't healed, hardware is painful. It seems fishy to me.

I was hoping you'd comment on this. His explanation is nutty and makes me wonder if he simply has nobody "on his side" to run his ideas/story by right now. Sometimes I'm more bothered by the sloppiness of a scandal than I am by the scandal itself (I'm looking at you Tiger Woods).

[hostile]

It would be interesting to know the price of that metal. What looks like something you could get at Home Depot for a few bucks almost certainly has a hospital sticker price into the thousands. Of course, if Chaffetz in fact got his from Home Depot that might explain the infection.

I think the hospital pays around $80-90 for each screw and the mark up to the patient/insurance is 4-500%.

[falafel]

I think the hospital pays around $80-90 for each screw and the mark up to the patient/insurance is 4-500%.

Is there an option for the consumer to bring their own screws?

[hostile]

Is there an option for the consumer to bring their own screws?

Not in the US. Hospitals wouldn't accept the liability. There are some places in the world where the patient has to acquire the implant then the hospital will sterilize it. We send a lot of used trauma implants around the world to be reimplanted

[creekster]

Not in the US. Hospitals wouldn't accept the liability. There are some places in the world where the patient has to acquire the implant then the hospital will sterilize it. We send a lot of used trauma implants around the world to be reimplanted

Used traum a implants..... That thought is a little sobering.

[chrisrenrut]

It would be interesting to know the price of that metal. What looks like something you could get at Home Depot for a few bucks almost certainly has a hospital sticker price into the thousands. Of course, if Chaffetz in fact got his from Home Depot that might explain the infection.

When I had my clavicle surgically repaired 10 years ago, the bills I got priced the metal plate at $1000, and each of the 9 screws at $250.

[Moliere]

When I had my clavicle surgically repaired 10 years ago, the bills I got priced the metal plate at $1000, and each of the 9 screws at $250.

That's about right, but the cost does vary and it gets even higher. About a decade ago I did an inventory inspection at a hospital and saw the cost and price of the hardware. The markup is huge (like hostile mentioned) but the cost to the hospital was outrageous. In what was kind of funny and weird, the hospital kept the screws and such in bins similar to what you'd find at Home Depot, although they were obviously locked down and not readily accessible to the random employee waking trough.

I also got to do the Fas 5 review of currently outstanding legal claims against the hospital. If 50% of the stuff I read in those files is true, then there are some crazily incompetent surgeons out there. One guy claimed to have had a small tool left in him when the sewed him up


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[Jeff Lebowski]

So it appears that Chaffetz is quitting Congress to start a new gig with Fox News.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/loca...ntent=headline

So much for the "I need to spend more time with family" excuse.

[creekster]

So it appears that Chaffetz is quitting Congress to start a new gig with Fox News.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/loca...ntent=headline

So much for the "I need to spend more time with family" excuse.

Was there any basis to the earlier specualtion that he was involved in some sot of scandal that was going to break lose?

[myboynoah]

So it appears that Chaffetz is quitting Congress to start a new gig with Fox News.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/loca...ntent=headline

So much for the "I need to spend more time with family" excuse.

Might as well get paid the big bucks for all that time he is spending away from the fam. He'll be a one and done. Then he can spend time with the fam.

Was there any basis to the earlier specualtion that he was involved in some sot of scandal that was going to break lose?

Yeah, that was all pretty sordid speculation, and it appears baseless.