Good, it’s about time that these greedy doctors get smacked down for being the financial rapists that they are. Medicine in this country is the biggest, most destructive SCAM going on today. Doctors think they are entitled to RIDICULOUS amounts of money for simple routine procedures.
-Johnathan Blaze
It is generally agreed upon that the more one values a good or service, the more he or she is willing to ...
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Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on much about Medicare, except for getting rid of the fee-for-service system for paying doctors.
“If reducing the growth of Medicare spending to sustainable rates and moving away from fee-for-service are ‘ending Medicare as we know it,’ then both parties have embraced that goal, writes former OMB Budget Director Alice Rivlin in a Daily Beast commentary.
“Paying providers on a fee-for-service basis offers incentives to ...
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Have you ever worried about how you’re going to get healthy these days? Has your doctor recommended diet and exercise? Well, if you’re like millions who are struggling to find health, you’re going to need a lot more than just diet and exercise. You’re going to have to fight like crazy against a mind-set of disease that’s paradoxically disguised as health care.
America’s healthcare system – health insurance companies, government health ...
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Trying to figure out whether Medicare vouchers are a good idea for patients and their physicians? Then consider these two basic questions:
1. How much will the federal government contribute?
2. Who is at risk for health care cost increases?
How much will the government contribute? The traditional Medicare program has no set limit on how much the federal government will contribute to a beneficiary’s health care, although there are limits on how ...
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Medicare has suddenly become a centerpiece issue in the 2012 election—but not in a good way. Instead of an informed debate about Medicare’s present and future place in our health care system, the politicians have subjected us to a daily assault of nonsense over substance:
Let’s start with the nonsense accusation by Governor Romney that "There's only one president that I know of in history that robbed Medicare, $716 billion to ...
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It’s impossible to watch the news these days. Whether you’re conservative, liberal, independent or non-committed, it’s impossible to avoid the political bickering these days as the US Presidential campaign enters its final countdown. As a physician, seeing the video of Granny being pushed off a cliff is about all I can handle.
Seriously?
No politician I know has to deal directly with Granny, but I do. I have to look ...
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A guest column by the American Medical Association, exclusive to KevinMD.com.
Physicians contribute significantly to both the health of our patients and the economic health of our nation, and a new report shows that the 2 percent Medicare spending sequestration cut will put the jobs supported by the health care industry in jeopardy.
The AMA recently teamed up with the American Hospital ...
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“The specialist rescheduled me again,” the patient told me, looking embarrassed. ”I think he doesn’t want to see me any more.”
“I’m sure that it isn’t that he doesn’t want to see you,” I replied. ”This has to be a miscommunication with the front desk. It happens all the time; it drives doctors crazy.”
“I don’t know,” he continued. ”I just got on Medicare, and I wonder if maybe he doesn’t want ...
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Which of the candidates for President proposes to give people a defined amount of federal money (call it a voucher) to buy coverage from competing qualified private insurers (under federal benefit mandates) offered through a health insurance marketplace run by government?
The answer: Mr. Romney, and his new running mate, Paul Ryan. And President Obama.
How is that, you say? Isn’t the Romney/Ryan vision of how to reform health care diametrically opposed ...
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Medicare has moved to the center of this year’s presidential campaign for a single overriding reason: shrinking the nation’s long-term government deficit demands dealing with health care costs. No one – left, center or right – disagrees with that analysis.
What they also agree on is that limiting health care’s inexorable growth will require cutting future payments to those who deliver care – the doctors and hospitals, the nursing homes and ...
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-Eric Topol, MD, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine
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