The way to reduce antibiotic resistent germs is tort reform. Rein in the lawyers suing the doctors.
Hell, I wish more doctors would get sued, along with hospitals and labs. 400,000 die each year from infections they get while in hospitals. Labs tests blood, urine, and other things, and often times do a rush rush job and never catch half the problems. Doctors charge an arm and leg for their services, yet there's more bad health in this country than most other industrialized nation. We have more doctors, more nurses, more lab techs, more clinics, and more pharmasecuticals that any other nation, yet, we have the poorest health care record of any of them.
Hospitals are constantly being told to do a better job of cleaning instruments and test equipment. And, what makes matters worse, hospitals charge $1,800 a day for a tiny filthy room. $5.00 for an aspirin, and $30.00 to $40.00 for a meal that I wouldn't feed my wife's dog. Doctors charge $250.00 for an office visit that consist of a 5 minute conversation that could easily be handled over the phone. An MRI is upwards of $4,000 here in Georgia, and it takes from 10 to 20 minutes. A simple blood test by a lab cost me $2,500, and urine test cost me almost as much. The entire health care industry is infested with bad doctors, high cost, and fraud. Check the numbers on Medicare and Medicaid fraud each year. Everyone in the health care industry is getting filthy rich including pharmasecuticls and hospitals.
I'd love to see all the hospitals taken to court for killing so many citizens each year. Yet, they're still in business and raking in the money. Go figure. Health care is a scam and a fraud in this country. Even insurance companies are riding the money wave.