For the rest of Dr. Triepel’s talk, please click on the links. Part 2: 12:13: Impact of PPACA on Medicare and the Uninsured Part 3: 9:22: The effect of PPACA on Small Business, Taxes, and Medicine Part 4: 11:17: Real Healthcare Reform Part 5: 6:29: More Great Ideas for Real Healthcare Reform
carrie triepelWhen they only exist because of unsubstantiated claims and deceptive accounting. From PoliticoPro: On ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, Obama adviser David Plouffe said he’s not worried that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will be able to turn the tables on the Democrats in the Medicare debate. David Plouffe said he’s not worried that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan [...]
When Going Back To The Hospital Is Good News By Jordan Rau July 24th, 2012, 11:42 AM No one wants to be readmitted to a hospital, but it does beat one alternative: death. As Medicare prepares to start punishing hospitals with higher than expected readmission rates, new government data show that some hospitals with high [...]
RomenyCare 2.0 But Massachusetts takes 360-degree surveillance and converts it into a panopticon prison. An 11-member board known as the Health Policy Commission will use the data to set and enforce rules to ensure that total Massachusetts health spending, public and private, grows no more than projected gross state product through 2017, and 0.5 percentage [...]
More than 2,200 hospitals face penalties under ObamaCare for re-admission of elderly patients within 30 days of discharge — even if they’re sick: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/23/more-than-2200-hospitals-face-penalties-for-high-readmissions/
States see increased costs in Medicaid expansion: survey By Rich Daly Posted: August 1, 2012 – 2:30 pm ET Most states expect the Medicaid eligibility expansion to increase their costs, even during the three years that the federal government provides a 100% reimbursement for the expanded enrollment, a government survey found. (free registratino required to [...]
Below is the link to an article recommended to us by DS volunteer, DaveRacer, on how the IRS is slated to beome a much larger presence in our pivate and business lives because of the ACA. Dave’s comment: “Dan Pilla’s paper (attached) is must read for everyone. Let it be said.” Implementing the Patient Protection [...]
Gawande is a wonderful writer. Sometimes he even gets things right. The complete article isn’t as strong as the few bits below, but I think he is pointing us toward a key point we can make in our fight for health care freedom: the ACA hobbles the ability and willingness of physicians to independently “handle complexity [...]
What You Need to Know About the New, Free Medicare Checkup The new benefit isn’t what you might think by: Patricia Barry | from: AARP Bulletin | July 22, 2011 When is a physical not a physical? That’s what William Schmitz wanted to know after he went to his doctor for what he thought would [...]
The Mandate After the Court Roberts’s decision may end up killing Obamacare after all. By James C. Capretta & Yuval Levin July 16, 2012 4:00 A.M. In his opinion, Chief Justice Roberts plainly said that “the Federal Government does not have the power to order people to buy health insurance. Section 5000A would therefore be [...]
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