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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Thursday, December 8, 2011
Thursday, December 08, 2011
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"Do We Really Spend More And Get Less?", National Center For Policy Analysis
"In the United States and throughout the developed world, the market for medical care has been so systematically suppressed that no one ever sees a real price for anything. Patients never see the real price of the care they receive; doctors never receive a real price for the care they deliver; employees never see a real premium for their health insurance, etc. Since each separate purchase involves an artificial price, no one knows what the aggregate number really means".
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"Hospitals Gear Hiring To Healthcare Law and Industry Changes, Kaiser Health News
D4PC: While Obamacare is mandating health insurance companies reduce their spending on administration, it is unintentionally requiring hospitals to increase their level of administration and non-clinical staff. Ironically, there is a greater need for clerks than nurses and care assistants. How can anyone still believe these increases in hospital bureaucracy will not result in higher healthcare costs?
"Over the past 12 months, health care has created 20 percent of all new jobs".
"What's up? The new jobs appear to be driven not by patient demand as much as a general restructuring of the health care industry that includes changes mandated by the 2010 federal health care law, the 2009 federal stimulus funding, new government regulations and increasing use of information technology. Strong anecdotal evidence — hospital job listings, interviews with health care employers, analysis by health care economists — indicates the attention now is on hiring clerks and administrators".
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"CMS Tightening The Screws On Unnecessary Procedures In Florida and 10 Other States", Forbes
An emboldened Obama Department of Justice is going after physicians "big time" in Florida and 10 other states. Are you considering a joint replacement or spinal surgery? Concerned you may need a heart procedure?
Your physician and local hospital will be under a very high-powered, unforgiving microscope very soon and may be less inclined to do your procedure for fear of failure in meeting government's newest rules and regulations.
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"Choking On Obamacare", The Washington Post
"CKE, with more than 3,200 restaurants (Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s), has created 70,000 jobs, 21,000 directly and 49,000 with franchisees. The growth of those numbers will be inhibited by — among many government measures — Obama care".
"In an economic climate of increasing uncertainties, Puzder says, one certainty is that many businesses now marginally profitable will disappear when Obamacare causes that margin to disappear. A second certainty is that “employers everywhere will be looking to reduce labor content in their business models as Obamacare makes employees unambiguously more expensive.”
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"The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today", Forbes
".......provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumers’ premium dollars they collect—85% for large group insurers—on actual medical care rather than overhead, marketing expenses and profit. Failure on the part of insurers to meet this requirement will result in the insurers having to send their customers a rebate check representing the amount in which they underspend on actual medical care".
"This is the true ‘bomb’ contained in Obamacare and the one item that will have more impact on the future of how medical care is paid for in this country than anything we’ve seen in quite some time. Indeed, it is this aspect of the law that represents the true ‘death panel’ found in Obamacare—but not one that is going to lead to the death of American consumers. Rather, the medical loss ratio will, ultimately, lead to the death of large parts of the private, for-profit health insurance industry".
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"Rigid Regulation Can Become Detrimental To Patient Care", Policy
"All the protocols and policies that are developed are supposedly designed to help optimize patient care and improve outcomes. At what point is this goal lost?
Cookbook medicine, inflexibility and strict adherence to sometimes arbitrary rules developed by administrators and lawyers are destined to clash with the individuality that is inherent to a physician’s approach to their patients and the provision of what we doctors hope is high quality patient care.
"Rigid regulation, as I have attempted to demonstrate, can become detrimental to patient care. Every aspect of health care should be directed towards optimizing patient care and improving outcomes. Clinical guidelines may be helpful, but it must be remembered that they are guidelines only.
Doctors now are forced to follow an ever growing list of rules and protocols which have never been shown to improve patient outcomes, but do carry the potential to be a detriment to patient care".
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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"Do We Really Spend More And Get Less?", National Center For Policy Analysis
"In the United States and throughout the developed world, the market for medical care has been so systematically suppressed that no one ever sees a real price for anything. Patients never see the real price of the care they receive; doctors never receive a real price for the care they deliver; employees never see a real premium for their health insurance, etc. Since each separate purchase involves an artificial price, no one knows what the aggregate number really means".
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"Hospitals Gear Hiring To Healthcare Law and Industry Changes, Kaiser Health News
D4PC: While Obamacare is mandating health insurance companies reduce their spending on administration, it is unintentionally requiring hospitals to increase their level of administration and non-clinical staff. Ironically, there is a greater need for clerks than nurses and care assistants. How can anyone still believe these increases in hospital bureaucracy will not result in higher healthcare costs?
"Over the past 12 months, health care has created 20 percent of all new jobs".
"What's up? The new jobs appear to be driven not by patient demand as much as a general restructuring of the health care industry that includes changes mandated by the 2010 federal health care law, the 2009 federal stimulus funding, new government regulations and increasing use of information technology. Strong anecdotal evidence — hospital job listings, interviews with health care employers, analysis by health care economists — indicates the attention now is on hiring clerks and administrators".
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"CMS Tightening The Screws On Unnecessary Procedures In Florida and 10 Other States", Forbes
An emboldened Obama Department of Justice is going after physicians "big time" in Florida and 10 other states. Are you considering a joint replacement or spinal surgery? Concerned you may need a heart procedure?
Your physician and local hospital will be under a very high-powered, unforgiving microscope very soon and may be less inclined to do your procedure for fear of failure in meeting government's newest rules and regulations.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Choking On Obamacare", The Washington Post
"CKE, with more than 3,200 restaurants (Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s), has created 70,000 jobs, 21,000 directly and 49,000 with franchisees. The growth of those numbers will be inhibited by — among many government measures — Obama care".
"In an economic climate of increasing uncertainties, Puzder says, one certainty is that many businesses now marginally profitable will disappear when Obamacare causes that margin to disappear. A second certainty is that “employers everywhere will be looking to reduce labor content in their business models as Obamacare makes employees unambiguously more expensive.”
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"The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today", Forbes
".......provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumers’ premium dollars they collect—85% for large group insurers—on actual medical care rather than overhead, marketing expenses and profit. Failure on the part of insurers to meet this requirement will result in the insurers having to send their customers a rebate check representing the amount in which they underspend on actual medical care".
"This is the true ‘bomb’ contained in Obamacare and the one item that will have more impact on the future of how medical care is paid for in this country than anything we’ve seen in quite some time. Indeed, it is this aspect of the law that represents the true ‘death panel’ found in Obamacare—but not one that is going to lead to the death of American consumers. Rather, the medical loss ratio will, ultimately, lead to the death of large parts of the private, for-profit health insurance industry".
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"Rigid Regulation Can Become Detrimental To Patient Care", Policy
"All the protocols and policies that are developed are supposedly designed to help optimize patient care and improve outcomes. At what point is this goal lost?
Cookbook medicine, inflexibility and strict adherence to sometimes arbitrary rules developed by administrators and lawyers are destined to clash with the individuality that is inherent to a physician’s approach to their patients and the provision of what we doctors hope is high quality patient care.
"Rigid regulation, as I have attempted to demonstrate, can become detrimental to patient care. Every aspect of health care should be directed towards optimizing patient care and improving outcomes. Clinical guidelines may be helpful, but it must be remembered that they are guidelines only.
Doctors now are forced to follow an ever growing list of rules and protocols which have never been shown to improve patient outcomes, but do carry the potential to be a detriment to patient care".
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