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Health care “reform” and “accountable care” vs. doctors’ autonomy
Under ObamaCare, doctors “lose their ability to practice medicine as they envisioned. The government will be making so many decisions about how doctors will be paid, what they will be paid, and what type of practice they can establish and operate.” Continue reading
“Accountable Care Organization” Debacle Exposes Obamacare’s Fatal Conceit
Obama administration’s efforts to promote accountable care organizations (ACOs) in Medicare are failing because they are “premised on the fatal conceit that government experts can direct the market better than millions of consumers making their own decisions.” Continue reading
Obamacare’s Big Brother: Accountable Care Organizations
The fundamental flaw with ACOs is the Big Brother approach of controlling costs by dictating how physicians may practice. Doctors may decide they’d rather be ‘accountable’ to their ACO paymasters rather than patients. Continue reading
Primary Care Can Be Comprehensive and Convenient for $2 a Day
For example of how people can get primary health care without insurance, see John Goodman’s post: Primary Care Can Be Comprehensive and Convenient for $2 a Day. Goodman notes that “all this will go away, however, if Obama Care is … Continue reading
Concierge medicine: doctors tire of dealing with politically-controlled insurance
Concierge medicine “potentially poses a big threat to Medicare and to the new world of medical care envisioned under President Barack Obama’s health overhaul. ” Continue reading
Colorado may cancel state-run “Prescription Drug Monitoring Program”
Do you find it kind of creepy that government agents have access to your prescription information? Every med you take, Colorado authorities could be watching you. But Colorado’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program may lose its tax funding. Continue reading
Colo. HB 11-1173: Daily Camera opposes licensing of naturapathic doctors
Writing for the Boulder Daily Camera’s Editorial Board, Erika Stutzman admirably defends individual freedom & responsibly by opposing Colorado House Bill 11-1173, which would prohibit naturopathic physicians from practicing without a license. Continue reading
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The Wisconsin Protests and the New Medical Ethics
The breaches of professional ethics displayed in Wisconsin may be an ominous foretaste of future problems Americans can expect under ObamaCare. Continue reading
ObamaCare may sink like the Titanic
“The RMS Titanic remains the quintessential metaphor that symbolizes avoidable but inexorable downfall because of hubris and incompetence. In our new century, Obamacare may supplant it,” writes Milton Wolf. He explains why in “USS Obamacare takes on more water,” published in the Washington Times. Continue reading
Do electronic medical records improve treatment quality?
Many studies fail to show evidence that electronic medical records improve quality of care. Since advocates of politically-controlled medicine are pushing this, you might think their real goal is to track what doctors do for the purpose of controlling them. Continue reading