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 […]
Answer: $32 trillion over 10 years is one guess. Actually, it will devour every dollar that can be taken from taxpayers or creditors and diverted to the system. Bernie Sanders himself pegged the price of […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Have we lost our collective minds? A mass shooting with no readily apparent motive is an extreme representation of our sense that our social fabric is unraveling. This is […]
Answer: Whomever it pleases. Some money will trickle down to those who help patients, but 40% or more may be siphoned off en route. It is often asserted that Medicare is the very model of […]
Your advocacy in support of HB 273 is making a difference! This past week, the OSMA held an emergency meeting and adopted a position in support of HB 273 to stop MOC mandates. The next […]
Answer: Younger and less experienced physicians, foreign physicians, subservient physicians, non-physicians—or possibly no one. Having an insurance card doesn’t help if there are 50 people ahead of you in the waiting room—and the doctor is […]
Volume 73, no. 10 October 2017 Worse than the AIDS epidemic at its peak. Fatalities nearly double the global terrorism death toll. The “U.S. heroin crisis is so bad it’s raining ‘needles’.” In March 2017 […]
Whereas: board certification and the corporate product known as “maintenance of certification” (MOC) are arbitrary constructs of private entities that exclude physicians from practice as an advertising and guild-exclusionary mechanisms; Whereas: such limitations constitute an […]
