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Best health care political pull can buy
“While Obamacare is suppressing genuine marketplace competition for medical services, it is also spurring a more sinister facsimile of competition – for political favors.” – Paul Hsieh, MD. Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable Care Organizations, HR 3590, ObamaCare waivers
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No surprise in Massachusetts: Central planning still fails
The Dec. 11 Associated Press article about health care in Massachusetts illustrates why central economic planning will always fail. As Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek wrote: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” Continue reading
Prepare for the ObamaCare doctor shortage
David Catron at Health Care BS cites three surveys of doctors that each conclude that many will retire or stop practicing in response to ObamaCare (HR 3590) or other similar authoritarian “reform” measures. Continue reading
FDA prohibits doctors from acting on best judgment
FDA controls prohibit doctors from acting according to their own judgment during a patient’s heart surgery. They wanted to use a stent to repair a blockage, but they did not. Patient still is at risk for a stroke. Continue reading
Accountable Care Organizations threaten quality medical care
Beth Haynes writes: The PPACA [HR 3590] is “nudging” doctors out of independent practice and into working as employees of large practice groups or hospitals. This move is occurring because of the bundled payment structure of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable Care Organizations, HR 3590
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“Accountable Care Organizations” vs. private practice medicine
From physician Scott Gottlieb on HR 3590‘s “Accountable Care Organizations”: The health legislation doesn’t call on government tribunals to euthanize seniors, as some fanciful critics claim, but the bill does kill off private-practice medicine. ObamaCare envisions that doctors will fold … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable Care Organizations, HR 3590
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Health care “reform” undermines doctor-patient relationship
Beth Haynes writes: The new healthcare law has multiple provisions which disrupt individualized decision-making between the physician and patient. This is no accident. It is by concerted design. She provides a few examples and concludes: These health care policy makers … Continue reading
9 of 10 companies anticipate their insurance will be banned
From MarketWatch: a new survey by Hewitt Associates, a global human resources consulting and outsourcing company, shows that almost all now believe they will not. Ninety percent of companies said they anticipate losing grandfathered status by 2014, with the majority … Continue reading
EMTALA’s perverse incentives
“911Doc” at DocsOntheWeb describes the harms of EMTALA: If you are unfamiliar with EMTALA or our take on it you can read about it here, but to be brief, EMTALA is an unfunded federal mandate passed in 1986, which, de … Continue reading
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Tagged EMTALA, unintended consequences
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Health care innovation: good and bad
John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis has an excellent column abut health care innovation. He summarizes: Wherever there is third-party payment [insurance, a health plan, Medicare, Medicaid], the goal of innovation is to produce more products that … Continue reading