This week’s ObamaCare news roundup, curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. Premiums for a benchmark plan (the second-lowest cost silver plan) for a 27-year-old are doubling from $2,616 in the first year of the Affordable […]
By Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD: More than 50 years ago Professor Marshall McLuhan posited that the medium is the message. Now it seems that money is the medium of the message. This month Medical Marketing […]
View slides from presentation by AAPS President Dr. Al Fisher at http://bit.ly/mocslides
Volume 73, no. 11 November 2017 The Report of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis (http://tinyurl.com/yaz9zw6a) has been released. It calls for the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) […]
By Kristin S. Held., M.D. When Medicare and Medicaid were created, the government promised not to interfere in the practice of medicine in any way. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Act into law on July […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD We are living in strange times. Virtual money, virtual friends, virtual reality. And regrettably, we are currently burdened with virtual leaders and virtual health insurance coverage. Last month’s Gallup […]
Don’t miss this talk by Charles P. Kroll, CPA from our recent 74th Annual Meeting, October 5, 2017: Slides available at https://goo.gl/CVv1ak
Answer: Costs would increase. The single payer would try to limit spending with wage and price controls and possibly a global budget. When something is perceived as being “free” or nearly so, demand increases, as […]
The latest health care legislation on Capitol Hill, reviewed by Marilyn Singelton, MD, JD. Two Temporary Health Care Measures On October 18, 2017, Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) release their draft of […]
Their campaign promises to the contrary, Republicans are teaming up with Democrats on an attempt to restore the illegal cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments to insurers that President Trump just terminated, observes the Association of American […]
