In the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Sandeep Jauhar opposes the recent trend of admitting older (aka nontraditional) students to medical school. His article, entitled “From All Walks of Life- Nontraditional Medical Students and the Future of Medicine” is a mouthful of jargon from the dusty vaults of the academic [...]
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An ongoing survey of practicing physicians on Sermo has revealed important data on the implications of the proposed Medicare cuts on patients and medical practices. Over 1100 physicians have so far responded in to the survey. Here are the highlights:
90% of physicians say that the proposed decrease in [...]
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Respect for individual liberty is the basis of an ethical society and should be the prominent feature of the ideal healthcare system. The main problem with our healthcare system today is that both doctors and patients have lost their freedom of choice. Third party control of healthcare financing with their cartel-like price fixing behavior and [...]
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If your dog gets sick and need a bronchoscopy, you would have to shell out about $2500 for the procedure, according a couple of veterinary price lists that I found online. The same procedure done in a human is reimbursed by Medicare $156.29 to $377.45 (for a CPT code of 31622 in New York City).
Human [...]
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Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation, on a 355 to 59 vote, to postpone a July 1st 10.6% cut in payments to physicians treating Medicare patients. They instead recommended trimming the government’s funding of the wasteful Medicare Advantage programs, a proposition that the White House has threatened to veto.
The Medicare cuts can [...]
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Here’s an update on where our healthcare dollars are going (placed next to the profits of the “evil” Halliburton types).
You decide who is more evil.
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There is nothing wrong with making money unless it’s at the expense of retarding innovation, competition, and delivery of apporpriate services, as it’s the case with our health insurance system which is operating according to principles set forth by the mafia and third world dictatorships (I’ll write more about this befitting analogy later).
So here’s the [...]
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I’m in Canada again for a business meeting and this was on the front page of Yahoo: “Canadians continue to suffer from a doctor shortage, according to a new report that found 1 in 5 people have not been able to find a physician to treat them regularly.”
There is a serious problem with access to [...]
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The health insurance industry in the United States is the primary reason behind rising healthcare costs and the increasing disenchantment of physicians and patients with the status quo. By inserting themselves between doctors and patients, health insurance companies restrict access to care and divert massive amounts of healthcare dollars into corporate profits. The above graph [...]
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The current healthcare system is burdened by needless administrative costs that consume over 30% of our healthcare dollars. This is no small change and amounts to billions of dollars of wasted money and resources. Advocates of a single payer healthcare system claim that consolidating the fragmentation of third party requirements into a single payer system [...]
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