How do you feel about hospitals utilizing robots in the ER? A group of engineers have come up with a solution to alleviate the overloaded triage staff in the ER’s. This solution of utilizing technology in the ER could also shorten ER wait times and lessen the probability of patients’ mortality rates while waiting in the ER.

In Addison, Texas, a physician-owned hospital was built and completed and received their Medicare provider number with only three days to spare before the ban on any new physician-owned hospitals took effect. This is a new Methodist Hospital for Surgery.

Republicans in the House are claiming that they will keep their campaign promises to repeal the health care law. They plan to do this before President Obama’s State of the Union address in January. What happens if their plans fail, Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan claims the GOP Leaders will “go after the bill piece by piece…we will look at these individual pieces to see if we can’t have the thing crumble.”