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vessel, we know that if you do that under 90 minutes you save heart muscle and as a result you don t have as much congestive heart failure, so you reduce the morbidity. now we went from about a 50%, 60% in the e.r. to 90% of all e.r.s hitting that and hospitals hitting that number, and that probab probably saves two to three days of hospitalization and also puts the patient back to work after three to five days as opposed to what we mentioned when eisenhower had his heart attack and admitted to fitzsimmons army hospital he sat in the hospital with little heparin and prayer. they have a little room for where he was at the hospital there now. but where do the savings go? the cardiologists didn t get paid anymore. here s program that actually had savings and we still haven t figured out whether they were the hospital got them through drg or the insurer got them. whatever we do with the models we have to look at what joe said, there has to be some incentives built in so t ....

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