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Top 9 Criticisms of Concierge Medicine

Many liberals have a knee-jerk reaction conniption fit when asked about concierge medicine: "Only the rich will be able to afford concierge care" and the end result will be that "fewer doctors will see fewer patients"....

Concierge Medicine: How to Escape From a Dysfunctional Medical System

How can patients and primary care providers escape from a system that is way underfunded and way overloaded? It requires a paradigm shift in the way we reimburse primary care physicians. Hint. Gym memberships are way ahead of the curve here....

Rush to Costa Rica?

Mr. Limbaugh to move to Costa Rica within 5 years if health care reform is passed....

Medical-Legal Advice on Dealing with Insurance Denials

When the insurance company denies a requested test or procedure, physicians would be well advised to avoid expressing their opinions about this denial in the chart....

How to Opt Out of Medicare

Congress waited until the 13th hour to delayed automatic cuts in Medicare reimbursements of 21% – at least until April. Such a drastic cut will force many physicians to drop Medicare to avoid operating at at loss and many may decide to anyway rather than wait for inevitable. How do you opt out? You would
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There are Older Stoners

No, not just Cheech and Chong. Laguna Woods Village retirement community now has a medical cannabis club even though the members are not allowed to grow it in their community garden plots. That would be like . . as if it were legal and we can’t have that....

Death Penalty Ruled Unconstitutional . . in Texas

No you can't have your system of pure symbolic retribution. Not yours....

Winning the Vaccine Wars

Statistically speaking, we are winning the vaccine wars . . ...

Human Anatomy as a Subway Map

Human anatomy as a subway schematic...