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Volume 63, No. 6 June 2007 IS CONSUMER-DIRECTED CARE SAFE? Consumer-directed insurance products are beginning take off. The percentage of employers offering high-deductible health plans increased by 75% between 2005 and 2006, and membership in […]
Volume 63, No. 5 May 2007 MANAGING DOCTORS Trying to address coverage and cost problems simultaneously is like “driving a stick shift car working accelerator and clutch together, to avoid either stalling or racing the […]
Volume 63, No. 3 March 2007 “HANDS OFF OUR KIDS” Until now, most parents have accepted incremental government intrusions into family life and medical decision-making. But Governor Rick Perry of Texas crossed the line, igniting […]
Volume 63, No. 1 January 2007 LINKAGE: EBM, EMR, P4P Physicians are not against science, or medicine based on evidence. Nor do they oppose technology, progress, efficiency, or knowledge of patients’ history and the medical […]
Volume 62, No. 11 November 2006 QUALITY OR DEATH It is hard to be opposed to “quality” in housing, in physicians, in medical care, or in life. When people demand “universal access” to care, it […]
Submitted by Mark Schiller, M.D. WHEREAS: patients should have the freedom to choose their medical treatment, and the manner in which they pay for that treatment; WHEREAS: many patients choose to remain uninsured because of […]
Submitted by Mark Schiller, M.D. WHEREAS: health information technology (HIT) is still in development and systems are rapidly changing; WHEREAS: a physician should be allowed to choose the technologies, whether for clinical or administrative applications, […]
AAPS General Assembly, September 2006 Submitted by Mark Schiller, M.D. WHEREAS: the Drug Enforcement Agency prohibits recycling of narcotics, and licensed facilities and individuals are forced to dispose of narcotics by either flushing or sending […]
AAPS General Assembly, September 2006 Submitted by Mark Schiller, M.D. WHEREAS: physicians and their staff divert a great of time and expense to processing insurance claims rather than to the practice of medicine; WHEREAS: physicians […]
