The same liberal egalitarianism irrationality that sunk the long term care plan (CLASS act) is ultimately going to sink Medicare.
Read more »
Health Policy
Let the 21% Medicare Pay Cut Stand!
Given the political difficulty in fixing the perpetual 21% Medicare pay cut, maybe a few million angry voters will help things.
Read more »
Specialty Board Re-certification: Improving Care or a Money Makeing Racket?
Repeated testing of physicians seems like a good idea. To bad that there is no proof that this makes any difference in the delivery or quality of patient care.
Read more »
Medicare Does NOT Pay For Preventive Care
With all the talk about preventive care and coordination of care during the current health reform efforts, you would think that this would have been one of the primary measures in the recent legislation. You'd be wrong.
Read more »
24/7 Real-time Medical Care
A new service provides patients with 24/7 access to medical consultation . . and some don't like it.
Read more »
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.
Read more »
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...
Read more »
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.
Read more »
Winning the Vaccine Wars
Statistically speaking, we are winning the vaccine wars . .
Read more »
DWT vs DWI
It’s like driving with your eyes closed for five seconds or more. This is the equivalent to driving while texting (reading or writing). It’s twice as likely to cause a crash as driving while intoxicated but as of 2010, only 19 states had laws that prohibited texting while driving for ALL drivers (not just...
Read more »
Electronic Prescribing Reduces Health Costs!
So why aren't the Federal government or health insurance companies rushing to compensate and reward physicians who start using electronic medical records systems with e-prescribing ability?
Read more »