This is the fifth in a series of posts analyzing randomly selected provisions in HR3200, the House Democratic health care restructuring bill. The hope is that through random selection of pages from the House Bill, using the dartboard method, some light will be shed on the otherwise dense House Bill.The page selected for today’s post is page 294 of the House Bill, which is part of the 19-page long Section 1151, “Reducing Potentially Preventable Hospital Readmissions.” This section is a microcosm of the health care debate, pitting the needs of individual patients against the need of the government to control health care costs.Section 1151, unlike the other sections at which I have looked, has received a fair amount of attention. According to an analysis in The Wall Street Journal, the problem of hospital readmissions is particularly costly to the Medicare system:The government spends an estimated $12 billion a year on "potentially preventable" readmissions...(Read Full Post)