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Docs4PatientCare's President, Dr. Hal Scherz, has written an analysis on ObamaCare and the Supreme Court for Townhall.com.  In his article, Dr. Scherz makes a number of excellent points. Dr. Scherz notes that the elimination of cost-shifting is often used to justify the individual mandate but that: "The irony is that Obamacare itself is an elaborate cost shifting scheme. It shifts $500B out of Medicare to pay for the 159 new federal bureaucracies that have been created under this law. The 80 million people who are going to be put on Medicaid will shift costs to the 50% of Americans who still pay taxes and will absorb the healthcare costs of those who pay nothing. Obamacare is an income redistribution scheme." 

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In case you missed it, last week D4PC's Dr. Hal Scherz, MD was a guest on a radio show in which he discussed the impact of ObamaCare on the doctor patient relationship and the future of delivery of medicine. 

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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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Although their decision will not become public until late June, the nine Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States will conference today to take a preliminary vote on the outcome of the health care case. Supreme Court followers and pundits, as well as many Americans, are curious to see how this conference goes. There's not a lot of argument or discussion. Just a simple vote, and the Justices may each comment briefly on the basis for their vote. After the vote, the opinion-writing assignments will be made and the writing of the opinions will begin.  

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Docs4PatientCare's membership will have an excellent opportunity to make their voices heard in April. D4PC is organizing another round of "House Calls on Congress" which will allow our member-doctors to travel to Washington, D.C. for informational and educational work sessions. The event will also include a series of meetings with Members of Congress and their staffs. Doctors will be able to sit down with their elected officials to explain why a free-market health care system that empowers patients is essential to preserving the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship. 

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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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Today's oral arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) focused on the individual mandate. According to National Review Online's "Bench Memo's" Justice Kennedy seemed focused on ascertaining whether any limits existed to the exercise of government power in the form of future mandates. As many commentators have pointed out, the individual mandate is an unprecedented use of government authority because the government is not merely regulating people who are already engaged in interstate commerce but compelling citizens to engage.  

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