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...
Doctors' pay cuts save little in health costs By Kevin Pho "Why should I care if doctors get a pay cut?" my patient recently asked me. Therein lies the...
Excerpt: "Modern healthcare has contributed to physician burnout. Over the past 30 years, medicine has evolved from a profession where a newly trained doctor...
UK Doctors Withholding Treatment Information From Patients The August 26, 2008 Telegraph reports yet another example of the corrosive effect that nationalized...
Affordable Health Care by Walter Williams (October 22, 2008) Excerpt: "One of the campaign themes this election cycle is "affordable" health care. Shouldn't we...
Doctor held liable for punitives for treating patient competently From Point of Law.com "I don't usually post about trial court decisions -- they have a high ...
Arizona a Prime Example of Financial Ruin by Medicaid "In 1987, ... just over 10 percent of the state's budget was dedicated to Medicare expenditures. By 1992...
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide By: Sally C. Pipes SAN FRANCISCO - The Pacific Research Institute has just released The Top Ten...
$15 Billion to Take Over Health Care in Maryland By John LaPlante "Healthy Wisconsin" may be dead (momentarily?), but that hasn't deterred advocates of...
Half of primary-care doctors in survey would leave medicine Doctors cite red tape from insurance companies, government agencies Med school students shy away...
Mandatory Health Insurance: Wrong for Massachusetts, Wrong for America "President-elect Obama has pledged to make "universal health care" one of the highest...
Book Review: Healthy Competition: Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It By Michael F. Cannon & Michael D. Tanner About the...
"Asking For Trouble In Health Care" An Op-ed in the November 24, 2008 Colorado Springs Gazette compares the current bailout crisis to President-elect Obama's...
Most Americans want freedom to make health care decisions by Devon Herrick "As a new Congress begins to look at health-care insurance options, some of the...
Lucidicus Project: A Medical Intellectual's Self-Defense Kit About the Project The Lucidicus Project encourages young people entering the medical profession to...
Obama Will Ration Your Health Care Think of his health plan as a federal HMO. By SALLY C. PIPES People are policy. And now that President-elect Barack Obama...
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