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Ostensibly, the vote was against pay cuts for doctors. But it was really about “creeping privatization of Medicare,” writes left-wing columnist Paul Krugman. Krugman blames Medicare deficits on the Medicare Modernization Act. Not Part D, […]
Florida Governor Charlie Crist got the legislature to approve—unanimously—innovative reform that could dramatically affect Florida’s number of uninsured, now running at 21% of the population, the fourth highest rate in the nation. The “Cover Florida” […]
Perhaps hearing the complaints about the remote locations for its initial town hall meetings, the Texas Medical Board has finally agreed to hold one in Texas’s largest city, Houston, and hold others in additional central […]
Not content with holding $32 billion in unclaimed property in trust while tapping the interest, some states are aggressively seizing property that isn’t really unclaimed and using it to balance their budgets. Carla Ruff of […]
Volume 64, No. 7 July 2008 EMR A NON-CONSENTED EXPERIMENT The biggest barrier to acceptance of the electronic medical or health record (EMR/EHR) is said to be physician resistance. Cost, of course, is one enormous […]
Politicians and others usually list the funding of prevention and chronic disease management programs as a key method of achieving cost containment. Smoking and obesity are most frequently mentioned as risk factors to target. In […]
According to a summary report on a comprehensive national survey, more than eight out of 10 physicians practicing in an ambulatory setting have no access to any form of electronic health record (EHR), and only […]
According to an annual study released by Fidelity Investments, a couple retiring this year will need about $225,000 to cover lifetime medical costs. The study assumes no employer-sponsored retiree coverage. It includes Medicare premium payments, […]
Nothing probably shows the potential of health savings accounts (HSAs) better than their enemies’ attempts to wreck them. An attempt to load on costly administrative requirements passed the House of Representatives but not the Senate. […]
After much criticism and the filing of a lawsuit by AAPS against it, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) will host a series of town hall meetings this summer. This exercise is supposedly to “gather input […]
