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 [...]
Is Medicare A Good Deal? By John Goodman Filed under Health Alerts on June 27, 2011 with 38 comments Think about everything you will pay to support Medicare: the payroll taxes while you are working, the premiums during retirement, and your share of the income taxes that subsidize the system. Then compare that to the [...]
You may be hearing about a new “study” published yesterday in Health Affairs which shows Medicare patients to have less access and cost problems than patients with private insurance. This study is a telephone survey based on participant recall of events over a year. The interviews took about 25 minutes each which makes it unlikely [...]
Trying to duck health care’s employer rules? Don’t bother By Jose Pagliery @CNNMoneyJuly 13, 2012: 5:10 AM ET Splitting up a company to avoid health care reform’s employer penalties won’t work. Instead, to avoid bankruptcy, business owners like David Barr say they’ll fire workers and cut hours. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — In the wake of [...]
Top doctor’s chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year By Steve Doughty MailOnline PUBLISHED: 18:08 EST, 19 June 2012 | UPDATED: 08:20 EST, 21 June 2012 NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a [...]
Socialists often claim to care for the children….but the reality is they don’t and can’t. Ontario signals it is willing to pay for tot’s eye-disease treatment Caroline Alphonso and Karen Howlett The Globe and Mail , Jun. 13 2012, The Reids – who are still awaiting official confirmation of funding from Ontario bureaucrats – first [...]
Lots of good stuff lately. This WSJ op-ed is by a couple of researchers whose work I am familiar with b/c of my cost shifting research. the rest of the article is excellent so be sure to read the whole thing. We need to have these points down cold. – B.Haynes The Wrong Remedy for [...]
Redo medical liability system By TBO.COM | Staff Published: July 19, 2012 Updated: July 19, 2012 – 12:00 AM The medical malpractice tort system in the United States is not adequately accomplishing its three main goals: deterrence of unsafe practices, compensation for injured persons and corrective justice. However, the Charlotte County Medical Society sees hope [...]
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