by Greg Corombos. Obamacare is not only making patients miserable. Mountains of Obamacare-related paperwork and the threats of severe fines for the slightest errors are forcing many doctors to retire and others to shut down their practices and work under the protection of hospitals, and all of it spells bad news for patients. Galen Institute President ... MORE
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Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Avik Roy: Flatlined - White House Says Obamacare Exchange Enrollment Growth To Collapse In 2016
Not difficult to understand. For years,
this blog has been warning about how the high cost of
Obamacare-sponsored insurance would limit the law’s expansion of health
coverage. Well, the chicken has come home to roost. Today, the Obama
administration announced that it projected dramatically lower enrollment
growth for Obamacare’s ... MORE
How Uncle Sam Plans To Cheat Granny Out Of Health Care
by Betsy McCaughey. Obama says too many seniors getting hip and knee replacements. Everybody knows if you don’t pay to repair your car, you limit its life. The same is true with people. We need medical care to avoid becoming clunkers. For a half-century, Medicare has enabled seniors to get that care. But now the Obama administration is pressuring ... MORE
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elderly,
government,
health care,
MediCare,
ObamaCare,
painkillers,
politics,
seniors,
tactics
Hope And Change Update: 6.6 Million Americans Had To Pay ObamaCare's Individual Mandate Tax For 2014
The one promise kept. More Americans paid ObamaCare's individual mandate tax for 2014 than previously estimated, according to a new report from the Internal Revenue Service's National Taxpayer Advocate. In January, the Treasury Department projected that up to 6 million households would be subject to the tax because they did not ... MORE
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IRS,
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ObamaCare,
obligation,
penalties,
tax
Michael Accad: While Medical Bureaucrats Continue To Proliferate, Doctors And Nurses Are Becoming More Scarce
The dynamics of government health care. In contrast to the expected shortage of tens of thousands of physicians, there appears to be an abundance of health care administrators. Economists and physician-activists at Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) have invoked the below graph and the administrative bloat it shows as ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Shona Banda Faces Decades in Prison Because Her Son Questioned Anti-Pot Propaganda
Childs comments may lead to prison for mom. In Live Free or Die,
a 2010 memoir recounting how cannabis oil saved her life, Shona Banda
emphasizes the importance of "self-taught knowledge," acquired by
constantly asking questions and "looking at all of the angles of any
information given." Her son may have learned that lesson too ... MORE
MD Criticisms Of ObamaCare Silenced By ACA Bureaucrats
by Drs. Gerard J Gianoli and Joel L. Strom. Don't expect your doctor to stand up and protest about how the Affordable Care Act is responsible for so many of the health care problems that patients face today. As a physician and a dentist in private practice, we have spent the past five years making the case that the ACA is harming our ... MORE
Senate Formally Begins Process To Repeal Obamacare
by Tom Howell. The Senate Budget Committee sent formal instructions Friday to committees tasked with leveraging a fast-track budget tool to chalk up a major, if symbolic, GOP victory: the repeal of Obamacare. The congressional budget for fiscal 2016 instructs chairmen of the Finance and Health committees to each find ways to reduce the deficit by ... MORE
Innovation Vs Intervention In Health Care
by Veronique de Rugy. How can we produce better health for more people at a lower cost, year
after year? By lifting all the rules and barriers that prevent health
care innovators from bringing new lifesaving products to consumers and
force doctors to beg bureaucrats and insurance administrators for
permission to save lives. For years, free market ... MORE
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bureaucracy,
drugs,
FDA,
government,
health care,
innovation,
intervention,
medical,
medicine
Affordable Insurance Rates Set To Skyrocket 50% ... Again
by Marc Salvo. Remember when the American people were told that insurance would be free for the poor and affordable for the middle class? You know, back when we had to wait for the Affordable Care Act to be passed before we found out what was in it? Within weeks of the program finally launching Americans saw an immediate jump in their ... MORE
John Stossel: Mr. Capitalism
The incentive to keep patients happy and healthy. For years, my scientist brother Tom was the nonpolitical Stossel. I defended free markets on TV, and he studied blood at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Mom asked me when I'd get a "real job" like his. Then the crusade against capitalism reached his world. Medical "journalists" ... MORE
Lenny Bernstein: U.S. Faces 90,000 Doctor Shortage Within A Decade, Medical School Association Warns
A shortage created by government. The United States faces a shortage of as many as 90,000 physicians
by 2025, including a critical need for specialists to treat an aging
population that will increasingly live with chronic disease, the
association that represents medical schools and teaching hospitals reported Tuesday. The
nation's shortage of ... MORE
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disease,
doctors,
economics,
health care,
incentives,
licensing,
medical,
ObamaCare,
shortage
New Narcotic Painkiller Rules Put The Hurt To Veterans
by Emily Wax-Thibodeaux. Frequent appointment requirements overwhelm the VA. New federal rules that make it harder to get narcotic painkillers are taking an unexpected toll on thousands of veterans who depend on these prescription drugs to treat a wide variety of ailments, such as missing limbs and post-traumatic stress. The restrictions, ... MORE
Congressman Blasts San Francisco Medical Pot Prosecutions
by David Downs. Calling out the feds. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher blasted San Francisco’s local U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag Sunday, saying she was “breaking the law” in her attempts to seize major Bay Area dispensaries Harborside Health Center and Berkeley Patients Group. The libertarian-leaning Republican from Huntington Beach has ... MORE
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authority,
cannabis,
federal,
federalism,
government,
health care,
medical marijuana,
medicine
Keep Vaccine Choice—So Long as Families Pay Their Way
by J.D. Tuccille. A friend of mine who worked in pediatric private practice in the Washington, D.C. suburbs had a strict policy on vaccination: If you didn't vaccinate your children, you had to find another practice. He would try to persuade, he would give several warnings, but ultimately, those who didn't vaccinate had to find another provider. ... MORE
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children,
choice,
disease,
government,
health care,
incentives,
medical,
taxpayer,
vaccinations
New Surgeon General Should Prescribe Honesty On E-Cigs
by Sally Satel, Forbes. Early last week, the nation’s new Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, said health officials are “in desperate need of clarity” on electronic cigarettes to help guide policies. The technology should be embraced, he said, if evidence shows e-cigarettes are able to help those who otherwise have trouble quitting smoking. Dr. ... MORE
Britain May Be Forced To Abandon Free Healthcare
by Bill Gardner. Britain’s most senior doctor has said the under-pressure NHS may be forced to abandon the concept of free healthcare for all. Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS in England, said there were doubts over whether the taxpayer-funded model was “sustainable in the longer term”. He added that huge changes ... MORE
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