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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
The American Medical Association as part of America’s ruling class
In “America’s Ruling Class” published in the American Spectator, Angelo M. Codevilla writes: To the extent party leaders do not have to worry about voters, they can choose privileged interlocutors, representing those in society whom they find most amenable. In … Continue reading
Pay your doctor cash, get better treatment
Jay Parkinson, M.D. writes: If we really want to find out how to damn near perfectly manage any medical problem as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, we should be studying how doctors manage the medical problems of the cash-paying doctors … Continue reading
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Tagged patient-as-customer
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“Medical homes”: good idea, or politicized boondoggle?
David Hogberg at Investor’s Business Daily has written a nice critique of the so-called “medical homes” pushed by ObamaCare (HR 3590). A “medical home” sounds comforting, but if politicians are forcing you, or nudging you, into one with legislation, then … Continue reading
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Tagged fee for service, HR 3590, medical homes
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ObamaCare: Insurers Need Permission to Survive; Citizens, to Live
This is the provocative title of Dr. Paul Hsieh‘s recent article in Pajamas Media. It begins: Suppose our government declared that everyone had the “right” to a nice steak dinner. The government would require restaurants to sell $50 steak dinners … Continue reading
Massachusetts’ bills propose to enslave doctors
Either provide medical treatment to people at prices we set, or lose your license to practice medicine in Massachusetts. Both bills in question are Senate Bill 2170 and House Bill 4452 contain such language. Both the House Billand Senate Bill … Continue reading