Health Justice Instead of Tort Reforms? Best Practice Should Provide Exemption
Tom Daschle and Newt Gingrich and President Obama have all concurred that “if a doctor follows clinical guidelines, should he have safe harbor immunity from litigation.”
C-Sections & Obesity Blamed For Rise In Maternal Mortality
If C-sections are more dangerous, and since multiple C-sections are an even higher risk, why would hospital policies require that a woman who has had a C-section before deliver by C-section again?
The SGR Band-aid & Why We All Should Care
The real problem is with the SGR itself. Medicare’s reimbursement for treatment needs to be addressed, revised so that it compensates fairly and equitably. Once the matter has been dispensed of, doctors can return their full attention to treating patients instead of worrying about how to keep the doors open for those patients…
Pardon me, Mr. President, but could you tell your stage dressers that it takes more than a garment to make a doctor, and more than those props to get the American people to believe that physicians are actually endorsing such a pathetic and woefully inept excuse for Health Care Reform?
From The Trenches (Healthcare Reform for the Real World) #4: Support Innovation
It’s one thing for a company to offer a product and compete for sales, and another entirely to stifle advances that can save lives and reduce or eliminate suffering, simply because the status quo is more profitable to a few. Meaningful healthcare reform includes protecting such advances and rewarding productive research that can lower costs and improve quality of life.
Obama & Dems To Push Half-Baked HCR Through Via Tactic Misnamed As “Reconciliation”
Surely President Obama has to realize that Reconciliation would be a huge mark against his presidency. So why continue to push for the unpopular Reconciliation tactic? A clue may come from what he said while speaking against postponing. President Obama retorted …
Podcast on Defensive Medicine
Great podcast from MDWhistleblower on defensive medicine [audio:http://www.interactmd.com/sites/default/files/Defensive%20Medicine%20and%20Gallup%20Poll.mp3] click to play :: Defensive Medicine
House Giveth, Senator Bunning Taketh Away; 21% SGR Cut Ahead!
Meanwhile, doctors would end up doing without 100% of their payments for Medicare patients unless and until the Senate acts.
President’s Plan: Backdoor Health Care Bill Thru Budget Reconciliation
What makes the maneuver itself objectionable is the method that would be used. A backdoor tactic, called a budget reconciliation bill, would allow the changes to be enacted without opening the subject to a filibuster on the floor… Passing action via budget reconciliation commits this nation’s government to addressing the matter… while allowing for amendment in times to come…. Nine hundred billion dollars divided by thirty million people is $30,000 per person. That’s a lot of health care insurance premiums!
From The Trenches (Healthcare Reform for the Real World) #3: Pre-Existing Conditions
Prohibiting coverage based on pre-existing conditions will just mean the public pays for a more severe version when the patient is forced to turn to public assistance to remedy the condition.
Drug Makers Playing the Numbers Game
With healthcare reform legislation pending, and the government indicating that they’ll be shaving money off the prices they’ll pay for all things Healthcare, it shouldn’t really have been much of a surprise to see drug manufacturers raising the prices. After all, if they raise them … Read more
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