The same liberal egalitarianism irrationality that sunk the long term care plan (CLASS act) is ultimately going to sink Medicare.
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Spending money like it's someone else's problem.
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An example of why it's hard to write software for health care delivery systems.
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It is said that the happiest days in a boat owner’s life are the day he buys it and the day he sells it. Likewise, The happiest days in a doctor’s life are the day he get his license and the day he figures our how to make a good living without it. I.e....
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The Congressional health care reform boondoggle, otherwise known as the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" expanded government funded health care to about 32 million Americans but other than some tepid insurance restrictions, basically screwed the rest of us. How is the new reform law doing at 90 days?
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The current health care system is doing a good job of driving away primary care providers by fixing it so that the harder they work, the less they make.
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In fact, it's likely to make things worse.
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The study of motivation in economic rewards models provides us a framework by which to look at how greed and the drive to maximize profit leads to more expensive and poorer quality health care.
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Paying primary care physicians per patient visit and per office service is really, basically, very stupid.
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What the hell is going on in Massachusetts?
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