Free Economics MD - What if Your Home Was Just Like a Hospital?

This week, Bapu talks with Dr. Zia over Meyer about the blurred line between hospital and home care. What if we use extreme weather events as a natural experiment to see what happens when we discharge people sooner than we otherwise would? Are those patients more likely to be rehospitalized? If so, maybe we're keeping patients in the hospital the right amount of time. But if readmissions don't go up, maybe it means we could be safely discharging some people sooner.