Tag Archives: Accountable Care Organizations

The 12 Worst Features Of ObamaCare

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

The worst parts of ObamaCare include the Basic Health Plan, waivers, Accountable Care Organizations, and Medicaid Expansion. Continue reading →

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The Wisconsin Protests and the New Medical Ethics

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

The breaches of professional ethics displayed in Wisconsin may be an ominous foretaste of future problems Americans can expect under ObamaCare. Continue reading →

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Best health care political pull can buy

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

“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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De facto death panels: all four pieces in place

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

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 →

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Accountable care organizations threaten competition, quality care, & low prices

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

No advocate of liberty should be surprised by the following from the New York Times. Reporting on “accountable care organizations” established by ObamaCare (HR 3590): Consumer advocates fear that the health care law could worsen some of the very problems … Continue reading →

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Accountable Care Organizations threaten quality medical care

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

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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“Accountable Care Organizations” vs. private practice medicine

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

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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