Showing posts with label doctors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doctors. Show all posts

John Stossel: Healthy Profits?

More damage to the medical profession.    I'm the underachiever in my family. My parents also produced Harvard Medical School research director Thomas Stossel. Mom called him the one who had "a real job." For years, my brother annoyed me by not embracing the libertarianism that changed my life. It bored him. He was comfortable in his Harvard  ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: A Bullet A Day Keeps The Doctor Alive

You and I avoid visiting the doctor by eating well.     Doctors like Lee Silverman carry concealed in order to care for us when we do need them. Doctors and medical professionals should be allowed to carry concealed. Last week, a psychiatrist named Dr. Lee Silverman technically broke the letter of the law by carrying concealed at work.     ... MORE

Jeffrey Dorfman: Get Ready For REAL ObamaCare Disasters

As people start to use it.        We have finally (almost, sort of) reached the end of Obamacare signups. The White House is claiming over seven million people have signed up with several million more now on the Medicaid rolls. Democrats are desperate to find a success somewhere in the Obamacare narrative, so reaching seven     ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Uncle Sam's Drinking Game

The mixology of medicine and moralism.     Does your doctor nag you about your drinking? The federal government wishes he would. Last week the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted with alarm that most Americans say they have never discussed alcohol consumption with a health professional. Physicians'      ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: A New Year And Old Problems

Caring is not a matter of words.        Whenever we stand on the threshold of a new year, we are tempted to forget the hazards of prophecy, and try to see what may lie on the other side of this arbitrary division of time. Sometimes we are content to try to change ourselves with New Year's resolutions to do better in some respect.         ... MORE

No, You Can't Keep Your Drugs Either Under ObamaCare

by Scott Gottlieb.     The President famously promised that you could keep your health plan and doctor. For many people, both of those pledges are turning out to be false. And now, you might not be able to keep your medicine, either. There are two reasons why. The first has to do with the higher out of pocket costs patients will face. The second issue  ... MORE

A New Flu Season Of Pain, Profit And Politics

by Gary Null & Richard Gale.        According to all official health reports, we are now fully in flu season.  It is that time of year when public health officials, physicians pediatricians and pharmacists warn that everyone over 6 months of age should protect themselves and get vaccinated. Most Americans, believing the government’s    ... MORE

The More Doctors Know, The More They Dislike Obamacare

by Mark J. Perry.   Some pretty devastatingly negative results about Obamacare from a November 8-12 survey of 3,072 practicing physicians in all 50 states, and reported this week by the Atlanta Business Chronicle1. Most physicians didn’t like Obamacare when Congress passed the health-care reform law in 2010. Fifty-nine percent of                 ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: The Shutdown And The Rollout

Here is a quick pop quiz.       Which presented more harm to human life and personal freedom: the four-week partial shutdown of the federal government last month or the rollout of Obamacare this month? Obamacare is the greatest single expansion of federal regulatory authority in American history. In one stroke, it puts 16 percent of      ... MORE

ObamaCare Leaves Docs On The Hook For Deadbeats

More incentives not to be a doctor.        Tucked inside nearly 11,000 pages of the Affordable Care Act is a little-known provision that doles out three months of free health care to individuals who choose to default on their premiums. People who receive the federal subsidy to be part of Obamacare will be allowed to incur a three-month      ... MORE

Alyene Senger: ObamaCare's Impact On Doctors

More regulation, oversight and patients.     No class of American professionals will be more negatively impacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly referred to as Obamacare, than physicians. Third-party payment arrangements are already compromising the independence and integrity of the medical   ... MORE

Carl Campanile: Docs Resisting ObamaCare Like Plague

They know bad medicine when they see it.      New York doctors are treating ObamaCare like the plague, a new survey reveals. A poll conducted by the New York State Medical Society finds that 44 percent of MDs said they are not participating in the nation’s new health-care plan. Another 33 percent say they’re still not sure whether to      ... MORE