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Doctors and AMA Split Over Contentious Issue of ObamaCare
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 9.27.2011
For more than 160 years, the American Medical Association has served as the self-appointed chief lobbying group for doctors. But the AMA’s lofty status has been under threat over the last several years — and is under attack today. In fact, the AMA now only counts about 17% of doctors as members.
The Census, ObamaCare and the Uninsured
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 9.26.2011
The U.S. Census Bureau has released its latest estimates on poverty, income and health-insurance coverage. Strikingly, the official poverty rate is the highest it's been in 50 years.
Two New Ventures Simplify Consumer-Driven Health Care
Submitted by John R. Graham on 9.23.2011
A friend of mine who made a lot of money use to tease me when I (constantly) expressed shock at how simple so many successful business ideas are. “All great businesses are simple,” he said. Here are two in the healthcare space: Bloom Health and ZocDoc.
What Should Rick Perry Say About Gardasil?
Submitted by John R. Graham on 9.22.2011
The Republican presidential primaries have been temporarily hijacked by a single incident in Rick Perry’s decade-plus tenure as governor of Texas. Despite Michele Bachmann’s ludicrous claim that Gardasil causes mental retardation, let’s recall that not one single schoolgirl was vaccinated by the offensive executive order: The legislature overturned it long before the school year began.
The Best Jobs Program? Full Repeal of ObamaCare
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 9.20.2011
President Barack Obama is currently barnstorming around the country to drum up support for his $447-billion plan to put unemployed Americans back to work. But Congress need not hand him a check for half a trillion dollars in order to jump start the economy. If lawmakers are really serious about creating jobs, they should simply repeal ObamaCare.
Anti-Vaccine Activists Apparently Immune To Science
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 9.12.2011
Yet another study has debunked the notion that vaccines cause autism. Late last month, a committee of 18 highly respected doctors, professors, legal experts and epidemiologists empanelled by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reviewed more than 1,000 peer-reviewed studies and articles and found “no links between immunization and . . . autism.” As the chairwoman of the panel, Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, put it, “The MMR [Measles-Mumps-Rubella] vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn’t.”
Defensive Medicine
Submitted by Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D on 9.7.2011
The article “Study: Only 1 in 5 medical malpractice cases pay” (Tribune, Aug. 17) reported that “most physicians and virtually every surgeon will face at least one malpractice lawsuit in their careers.” This alarming statistic is an important driver of rising U.S. health care costs.
Democrats' Plan B For Medicare: Medicare For All
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 9.7.2011
Last month, ObamaCare was dealt another huge blow. On August 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ruled that the law's requirement that all adults purchase health insurance was unconstitutional. The court determined that the government isn't empowered to force private citizens to buy a particular product, be it a car, broccoli, or a health plan.
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