Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine. (FIRM) http://www.westandfirm.org/index.html Statement of Principles and Goals We stand for Freedom and Individual...
The Right Vision Of Health Care - Yaron Brook FORBES MAGAZINE With the primary season in full swing, the presidential candidates are fighting over what to do...
Moral Health Care vs. “Universal Health Care” - Lin Zinser and Paul Hsieh "Although American scientists, doctors, and businessmen have produced the most...
Consumers for Health Care Choices http://www.chcchoices.org "CHCC is a 501(C)4 not-for-profit grass roots organization that represents the views of the health...
From Wikipedia: "...During the Pyrrhic War in 280 BC at Heaclea and in 279 BC in Asculum, the army of King Pyrrhus of Epirus suffered irreplaceable casualties...
Dr. Madianos makes some excellent points about the Pyrrhic victory in the recent Medicare tussle. In fact, all the political wrangling over Medicare is just a...
I was just alerted to this thought-provoking essay by Massachusetts attorney Paula Hall, directed towards American medical students, entitled "Please don't...
Making Money in Medicine Is Moral After the Massachusetts Public Health Council announced new rules that will allow CVS and other retailers to open in-store...
American Medical News content can now be discussed with your physician colleagues on Sermo, a _free_ doctors-only discussion board which currently has a...
The below letter was submitted to members of the Texas State and Harris County Medical Society on July 17,2008. Names have been removed in order to convert it...
Leftist Congressmen tried to stage a "town hall" style meeting in Houston last Friday in order to claim support for socialized medicine. Fortunately, blogger...
Medicare's "Free Market" Facade -Dr. Yaron Brook, http://www.americandaily.com/article/22680 " Some Republicans are bemoaning the passage of a new law they...
Reform health care - Paul Hsieh, M.D., Co-founder, Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine http://www.WeStandFirm.org Mandatory insurance does not solve our...
Concierge Medicine Government insurance programs such as Medicare devalue the services of primary care physicians relative to specialists, as many physicians...
Introducing Medpolitics.com A new web service is now available called "MedPolitics.com" http://medpolitics.com , a blogging site open to US physicians to opine...
A recent article in the American Medical News reports a planned massive expansion of the Medicare bureaucracy with the institution of a new layer of Medicare...
Dr.PH writes: I recently read the following e-mail about Medicare from a US medicalstudent, which I am quoting with his permission: "My grandparents just this...
A recent post on the online physician discussion board Sermo (www.sermo.com) asks: " Is universal healthcare and universal coverage the same thing or ...
From the CMS's own Feb 2008 press release: "Approximately 96 percent of the improper payments identified by the RACs in 2007 were overpayments collected from...
"How Not to Fight Against Socialized Medicine" Excerpt: "...Doctors are not the servants of their patients. No free man is a "servant" of those he deals with. ...
American Health Care in Critical Condition The Case for Putting Individuals, Not Employers or Government, in Control of Health Care By JOHN STOSSEL and ANDREW...
Are You Sick of Lawsuits ? Part I In case other readers here haven't already heard of it, I'd like to bring their attention to very valuable and very useful...
National Grocery Reform By Richard E. Ralston November 9, 2007 http://www.afcm.org/nationalgroceryreform.html One of the great scandals of our age is the fact...
"SICK AND SICKER is a feature-length movie that explores what happens when the government takes over the medical profession. SICK AND SICKER will investigate...
Who or What is Killing the Medical Profession? A colleague commented recently that 'competition among doctors within the profession is killing the profession"....
The Mystery (from the previous post): <<Is it not _odd _that the more medical science and technology has progressed, the more frequently physicians are...
Docs Bailing Out of Medicare, Medicaid Plummeting Reimbursement Rates Have Some Doctors Looking for a Way Out By AUDREY GRAYSON ABC News Medical Unit Note from...
"Docs Bailing Out of Medicare, Medicaid" Plummeting Reimbursement Rates Have Some Doctors Looking for a Way Out Frustration Mounting for Physicians According...
The below story was forwarded to me by a dear friend. She's a teacher- not a doctor- and she understands clearly the lessons that doctors in the US must learn...