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Why the Doctor Won’t See You
John Goodman explains how Massachusetts residents have long waits for medical appointments, and how this problem will spread nation wide as ObamaCare is implemented. Continue reading
Big Brother Is Watching Your Doctor
Government CER (Comparative Effectiveness Research) sounds like a progressive solution, but it is actually a frightening move that puts government detailers between patients and doctors and favors one-size-fits-none cost cutting over continued medical progres Continue reading
Medical Freedom Zones in the U.S. can promote innovation and quality
This paper illustrates how one jurisdiction could take the lead in defining medical freedom in the United States and create a safe haven for innovation, alternative care, and affordable treatment. Continue reading
FDA & price controls kill by obstructing development of life-saving medications
“Over the past two years shortages have developed for over 180 drugs, including cancer treatments. [Why?] FDA regulation, government price controls on already discounted but complex drugs, and policies that discourage the use of new medications.” Continue reading
Dangers of Accountable Care Organizations
So-called “Accountable Care Organization” pits doctors’ financial incentives against what is best for patients. Continue reading
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Government Price Controls Produce Cancer Drug Shortage – Who Would Have Guessed?
The federal government has created a cancer drug shortage. How? Because of what are essentially government prices controls on generic cancer drugs. Continue reading
How the FDA Impedes Innovation
[I]nnovations get better over time. But if you impede the first generation the second generation may never come into existence and, as Mandel notes, no first-generation device could satisfy the FDA’s conditions. It’s like refusing to give the Wright Brothers a license to fly because their first airplane only flew for 59 seconds. Continue reading
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“Accountable Care Organizations”: The Coming Collectivization of American Health Care
In the 1930s, the USSR forced independent farmers into large state-run collective farms. … these collective farms could not feed the country. … Unfortunately, the United States is about to make the same mistake in health care by collectivizing doctors and hospitals into government-supervised accountable care organizations (ACOs). Continue reading
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What’s wrong with “evidence based medicine”?
John Goodman lists the problems with “evidence based medicine.” Think of it this way: What if there were a rule that says you can’t do anything during the week unless it is on the calendar by Sunday. Call this “calendar-based scheduling.” Instead of being an aide, the calendar would quickly become an oppressive barrier to your freedom of action. Continue reading
Accountable Care Organizations: Soviet-style command & control medicine that strangles innovation & quality
Accountable Care Organizations “will become the medical equivalent of the state-run giant collective farms that failed to feed the USSR. Central planning will strangle innovation in American medicine just as it strangled the Eastern Bloc economies during the Cold War.” Continue reading