BehindTheMedspeak: How good (or bad) is your hospital? Finally, the truth starts to come out

Hospitals have opposed release of comparison information for decades, as fiercely as auto makers fought seat belts before they became mandatory after unequivocally proving their value in saving lives.

If fewer people go to crummy hospitals — and there are plenty of them around, trust me — and instead choose those that are best-in-class, that'll be that many more lives saved.

Yesterday the U.S. government for the first time released detailed information allowing you to compare hospitals.

Here you go.