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This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. One of the most important and damaging ObamaCare provisions has largely gone unnoticed by the general public, but the Medicaid expansion bubble threatens to […]
The antihumanist agenda of progressives has recently become apparent from news relating to both ends of human life, writes nephrologist Richard Amerling, M.D., president of AAPS, in the fall issue of the Journal of American […]
The deadline for comments on a key method for facilitating early death is Tuesday just after Labor Day weekend. Buried in 250 pages of changes to the CPT procedural codes required to claim Medicare payment […]
In celebrating the 50th anniversary of Medicare, its supporters are overlooking or denying the troublesome facts, writes cardiovascular surgeon Donald W. Miller, Jr., M.D., in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and […]
By Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D. A “single-payer” system for financing medical care accomplishes a few things. It destroys a vital freedom for millions, and it concentrates power in the hands of a few. The theory sounds […]
Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill. Three House Bills Approved on July 29, 2015 by House Energy and Commerce Committee Thank goodness, this was not endorsing selling fetal tissue […]
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. Personnel is policy, and following the personnel is a good clue to where the money is going. Marilyn Tavenner, who spearheaded the Affordable Care […]
Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill More Plucking Away at the ACA On June 18, 2015, H.R. 160, the Protect Medical Innovation Act was passed by the House 280 […]
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. It was already apparent in 2014 that the Affordable Care Act forces people to buy catastrophic policies at first-dollar coverage prices. Less well known […]
If HB 3300 passes the Oregon legislature, health plans in Lane County enrolling-public sector employees, including teachers, will not be allowed to contract with primary care physicians who do not serve the Oregon Medicaid program, […]
