Coming Clean on Dirty Hospitals

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
New York’s rate of hospital infections is higher than the rest of the country. But it’s illegal to know which hospitals are doing the most damage. Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (D-75) and Dr. Betsy McCaughey, former Lieutenant Governor of New York and Chair and Founder of the Committee to Reduce Infections Deaths (RID), discuss why the law is barring the release of the dirty secrets.

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