By: G. Keith Smith, M.D. http://SurgeryCenterOK.com, http://MarketMedicine.org Who will rescue the victims of ObamaCare and other government healthcare schemes? Not the legislators or regulators, but rather the growing free market. Patients who learn that an […]
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. The federal government spent $30 billion in subsidies to get physicians to adopt electronic medical records, which are now a major cause of […]
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. ObamaCare fleeces the middle class to benefit a mere one percent, writes Ileana Johnson Paugh in Canada Free Press. U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne […]
By Alieta Eck, M.D. – http://ZHcenter.org/ Since ObamaCare’s newly insured are predominantly new Medicaid beneficiaries, it is important to be aware of what this can mean to patients. These are the lessons I learned from […]
In a critique of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) last October I wrote: “Now comes news that three more of the original groups will jump ship, leaving only 19 of the original 32 still on board. A nearly 50 percent attrition rate should be seen as a death knell for the concept, as these were likely the best of the best, and the inducements most generous. Reasonable people would head back to the drawing board. But we are dealing with government bureaucrats, health policy wonks, and administrators. They will damn the torpedoes and push on at flank speed.”
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. The Burr-Hatch-Upton ObamaCare replacement plan, called the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment Act, or “Patient CARE” Act, alters somewhat the mechanism for […]
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. If patients all got healthy, medical costs would plummet. And if doctors weren’t paid for caring for patients who don’t get healthy, costs […]
Practicing physicians and their patients have legitimate concerns about the proposed "Interstate Medical Licensure Compact" now under consideration in at least sixteen states. Friday, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), in an attempt to […]
Hearing Synopsis Courtesy of Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD The Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Health held hearings on January 21 and 22, 2015 to discuss the elimination of the SGR (Sustainable Growth Rate). The hearing […]
Summaries courtesy of Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD @MSingletonMDJD On January 22, 2015, Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH) with 31 cosponsors introduced and referred to the House Ways and Means Committee H.R. 519, a bill to amend […]
