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 16, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
CNNMoney: Doctors Going Broke
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
CNNMoney has published a forthright article of the challenges facing the medical profession, particularly small practitioners in private practice. The financial strain on doctors as they struggle to deal with the regulation of their profession and the challenges of getting paid for the care they provide their patients is evident in the article.
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The Truth About RomneyCare
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Dr. Paul Hsieh, a member of D4PC's Colorado chapter, has written an analysis of RomneyCare and how the law includes a series of price controls. Admittedly, Hsieh writes, these price controls may not have been evident when RomneyCare first took effect but over time their impact demonstrates RomneyCare has resulted in price controls.
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IRS Taking Steps to Ignore Congress and Re-Write ObamaCare
Monday, January 09, 2012
Dr. Hal Scherz, President of D4PC, and Sally Pipes, of the Pacific Research Institute, have teamed together to writing a very informative article about how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is trying to impermissibly ignore the obvious language of ObamaCare, and therefore the Constitutional prerogatives of Congress, and "rewrite" the law as it sees fit.
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Op-Ed: Doctors Unethusiastic About Obamacare Geeks
Thursday, January 05, 2012
Today Townhall.com featured an op-ed by Dr. Mike Koriwchak, a healthcare IT specialist and the Secretary of the Georgia state chapter of Docs4PatientCare, discussing the practicality of adopting health IT (HIT), especially in light of the impact on patients:
I am a dedicated supporter of HIT. Our practice’s EMR implementation reached a reasonable level of maturity long before Obamacare, HITECH incentives, and Ms. Sebelius came along. We became Meaningful Use – compliant the first of October. I believe in the potential of HIT to revolutionize the practice of medicine by reducing costs and improving efficiency and quality of care. But I do not believe the HIT community is on a course that will take us to that vision.
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Political Focus Shifts to New Hampshire as State Committee Votes to Reject ObamaCare Funds
Thursday, January 05, 2012
As the political focus shifts from Iowa to New Hampshire, a committee in New Hampshire's House of Representatives recently voted to reject ObamaCare funding and return the money to the federal government.
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Who Will Your Doctor Work for Under ObamaCare?
Friday, December 30, 2011
D4PC "Morning Rounds" Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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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Sally Pipes: The Ugly Realities of Socialized Medicine
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
On December 19, Sally Pipes provided an analysis of how the socialized medical systems in Great Britain and Canada were failing patients. Patients were being forced to wait for care far beyond what is prudent and these waits are often resulting in the impairment of the patients ability to work. Elderly patients were particularly maltreated according to the article. One point that is painfully obvious with respect to socialized medicine is that it may results in "guaranteed" health insurance coverage, but coverage does not mean there is access to care.
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