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The FDA, Avastin, and death panels
“The FDA, stuck in its 1960s Thalidomide glory days mindset, denies Americans access to life-saving drugs. …[D]espite its intentions, [the FDA] drives up the costs of medicines & often dries up the supply chain altogether. America is currently facing a shortage of about 246 drugs – a record high.” – Milton Wolf, MD Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC, prescription drugs, regulation
Tagged death panels, FDA, rationing health care United States
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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
ObamaCare waivers & crony capitalism
“There are now 1,372 companies, labor unions and states that have applied for and been granted waivers from an early provision of [ObamaCare] … What’s really being waived here is the rule of law.” Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, regulation
Tagged HR 3590, medical-loss ratios, ObamaCare waivers
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Insurance company fined for selling illegal policies in Massachusetts
From Healthcare Finance News, April 26 2011: According to the [Massachusetts] AG’s complaint, U.S. Life sold health insurance policies in Massachusetts that were not authorized for sale and did not cover health services required by Massachusetts law. The mandated services … Continue reading
Colorado SB 11-200, State Insurance Exchanges: The Case against Implementation
Establishing state-level government-run insurance exchanges “offers no protection against future decisions by the federal bureaucracy, collaborates with an unconstitutional framework, and risks undercutting court cases across the country.” Continue reading
How to Insure Americans who have Pre-Existing Conditions
People with pre-existing conditions deserve better than ObamaCare’s price controls. Free market reforms can provide it. Like a hammer that sees every problem as a nail, many politicians think the solution to every problem is legislation that erodes our liberties. Continue reading
Dave Kopel & John Suthers on Judge Vinson’s ruling that strikes down ObamaCare
Senior Federal Judge Roger Vinson has ruled that “Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.” This ruling declares that the law. Read reactions by the Independence Instiute’s Dave Kopel, CO Attorney General John Suthers, and others. Continue reading
De facto death panels: all four pieces in place
All 4 pieces are in place for gov’t to deny life-saving medicine: Health Info. Technology to track doctors, comparative effectiveness research to decide what works, Accountable Care Orgs. to control doctors’ practice, & end-of-life counseling to inform patients. Greg Scandlen explains. Continue reading
“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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Dangers of mandating medical loss ratios
John R. Graham of the Pacific Research Institute discusses the harms of the medical loss ratios mandated in ObamaCare (HR 3590): One of the ways in which ObamaCare will reduce individuals’ and businesses’ choices of health insurance is through regulating … Continue reading