Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
OPINION: Obama's Affordable Care Act is bad medicine for America
Monday, February 06, 2012
In Case You Missed It: Spam in a Can
Friday, February 03, 2012
We thought you might enjoy Dr. David Cossman's recent article from General Surgery News:
For those of you who have been spending your days operating and taking care of patients instead of keeping up with the latest machinations from central planning to separate you from the fruits of your labor and control of your practice, ACOs are bundles of providers who will receive a global payment for a specific patient encounter, like a cholecystectomy. Who will bill, receive and divide the money is uncertain, except that it won’t be you, the surgeon. The only thing certain is that like diagnosis-related groups, the sustainable growth rate, and relative value units, this latest iteration in health care spending discipline will be gamed and ultimately relegated to the alphabet graveyard of designer cost-containment programs invented by health policy wonks who have an aversion to traditional medicine based on the private doctor–patient relationship. I’ll say this much for them: They are undeterred by their unbroken string of failures. Maybe they’re Cubs fans.
Read the full article here.
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How the AMA Undermines Doctors Ability to Negotiate Reimbursement Rates
Friday, February 03, 2012
D4PC has previously discussed how the American Medical Association (AMA) has subjugated the interests of its member-doctors (and the medical profession as a whole) in favor of protecting its government-granted CPT billing code monopoly. Dr. Daniel Palestrant writes about yet another way that the AMA is selling out doctors. This latest practice involves the collection and sale of data regarding doctors across the country.
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Our Dead American Medical Association
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Dr. Richard Armstrong, D4PC's COO, has written a new article that was published in The Washington TImes. The article explains the history of the American Medical Association (AMA) and how the organization has evolved from one that once opposed the government takeover and control of healthcare in the 1960s to an organization that fully embraced government control in the form of ObamaCare in 2009 (the AMA's membership has declined from 70% of American doctors in the 1960s to 15% of doctors in the wake of the passage of ObamaCare).
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Breaking News: House Votes to Repeal ObamaCare's CLASS Act
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Earlier today, the United States House of Representatives voted 267 to 159 to repeal ObamaCare's long-term care program - the CLASS Act (see H.R. 1173). Democratic Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) called the CLASS Act a "Ponzi scheme of the first order" and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she did "not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation." Despite the obvious budgetary problems associated with CLASS - and the threat it poses to taxpayers - 159 House Democrats inexplicably voted to keep the program in place.
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Why is Governor Corbett (Pennsylvania) Promoting ObamaCare?
Monday, January 30, 2012
Dr. Nick Pandelidis, the Vice-President of D4PC's Pennsylvania chapter and health care policy director for the Pennsylvania Coalition for Responsible Government, has posed an important question about why Pennsylvania's new Governor, Tom Corbett, is seeking to implement ObamaCare through the creation of ObamaCare insurance exchanges. While many states have rejected the creation of the exchanges, Corbett has decided to push the exchange in his state.
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Post State of the Union D4PC "Morning Rounds"
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Post "State of the Union" Special
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds", Monday, January 23, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Thursday January 19, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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Recent Posts
- D4PC "Morning Rounds" Tuesday, February 7, 2012
- OPINION: Obama's Affordable Care Act is bad medicine for America
- In Case You Missed It: Spam in a Can
- How the AMA Undermines Doctors Ability to Negotiate Reimbursement Rates
- Our Dead American Medical Association
- Breaking News: House Votes to Repeal ObamaCare's CLASS Act
- Why is Governor Corbett (Pennsylvania) Promoting ObamaCare?
- Post State of the Union D4PC "Morning Rounds"
- D4PC "Morning Rounds", Monday, January 23, 2012
- D4PC "Morning Rounds" Thursday January 19, 2012
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