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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Tuesday November 8, 2011
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
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"Obamacare's Billions In Hidden Pork For Unions", Investors Business Daily
Additional perks for the biggest supporters of the president's healthcare law.........
".......10 of the top 12 recipients are either unions or public employee groups. In fact, the biggest single recipient was the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust, which alone grabbed more than 8% of all the funds handed out so far. Other union beneficiaries include the United Food and Commercial Workers, the United Mine Workers and the Teamsters.
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"New Physician Poll Shows Obamacare Responsible For Increasing Pessimism About Medicine", Market Watch
The predictable and imminent "brain drain" in American medicine as a result of the recent government takeover of healthcare. Unless the entire law is repealed, expect a decrease in quality, dedication and responsiveness by tomorrow's physicians.
"We expected some frustration, but the numbers are stunning. Doctors are clear that they are reluctant to accept many aspects of the PPACA."
One of most telling results is that less than 20% of doctors polled would advise their own kids to go to medical school. "It's a screaming red-flag when the people on the frontlines don't want their own families going into medicine," said Serkes.
Physicians believe the Act will reduce the quality of care (78.7%), and say it is the single factor that has made them more pessimistic about the future of medicine (74.8%).
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"Solving The Growing Drug Shortages", Wall Street Journal
By now, most healthcare providers and even patients have experienced disruptions in treatment or have had to find alternative medications as a result of a shortage in many generic drugs. The following article, written by a physician, helps uncover the root cause of the issue and offers some remedies. As usual, the primary culprit is excessive government regulation and "price fixing" in the marketplace.
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"Save America: Repeal Obamacare", The Washington Times
From the president's own cousin and physician, Milton Wolf, MD:
"Politicians are a curious breed. Their age-old solution to the problems created by their bad laws is always the same: more laws. Until we break this vicious cycle, we are destined to continue down our current downgraded-America path. The time to break that cycle is now, by keeping the focus on Obamacare until the 2012 election".
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"Will the Supreme Court Carve Up Obamacare?", Bloomberg Business Week
For insurance companies nervously watching the legal fight over the constitutionality of the President’s health-care law, it would be the unthinkable: The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the law’s so-called individual mandate, which requires millions of young, healthy people to buy coverage—but leaves intact rules compelling insurers to cover sick people, who are likely to cost far more in benefits than they pay in premiums. Congress is then left to fix the problem.
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"States Should Return Obamacare Grants, Pursue Own Healthcare Reform", Heritage Foundation
The combined effect of these regulations and grant requirements are that a state would have to agree to surrender any last vestiges of meaningful control over how Obamacare is implemented. Thus, a state would now have no more real control over an exchange it set up than over one HHS established.
While just 24 months remain until exchanges must open for business, HHS has made little discernable progress toward creating federal fallback exchanges.
Consequently, at this point the best course of action for states is to neither apply for nor accept exchange establishment grant funding.
Instead, state lawmakers should pursue their own patient-centered, market-based reforms separate from and independent of Obamacare, using only private-sector or state resources. In particular, state lawmakers interested in creating a defined-contribution option for employment-based coverage should ensure that any “exchange” or “clearinghouse” to handle the administrative functions does not receive federal funding.
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"Another Unpleasant Surprise From Obamacare",
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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"Obamacare's Billions In Hidden Pork For Unions", Investors Business Daily
Additional perks for the biggest supporters of the president's healthcare law.........
".......10 of the top 12 recipients are either unions or public employee groups. In fact, the biggest single recipient was the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust, which alone grabbed more than 8% of all the funds handed out so far. Other union beneficiaries include the United Food and Commercial Workers, the United Mine Workers and the Teamsters.
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"New Physician Poll Shows Obamacare Responsible For Increasing Pessimism About Medicine", Market Watch
The predictable and imminent "brain drain" in American medicine as a result of the recent government takeover of healthcare. Unless the entire law is repealed, expect a decrease in quality, dedication and responsiveness by tomorrow's physicians.
"We expected some frustration, but the numbers are stunning. Doctors are clear that they are reluctant to accept many aspects of the PPACA."
One of most telling results is that less than 20% of doctors polled would advise their own kids to go to medical school. "It's a screaming red-flag when the people on the frontlines don't want their own families going into medicine," said Serkes.
Physicians believe the Act will reduce the quality of care (78.7%), and say it is the single factor that has made them more pessimistic about the future of medicine (74.8%).
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"Solving The Growing Drug Shortages", Wall Street Journal
By now, most healthcare providers and even patients have experienced disruptions in treatment or have had to find alternative medications as a result of a shortage in many generic drugs. The following article, written by a physician, helps uncover the root cause of the issue and offers some remedies. As usual, the primary culprit is excessive government regulation and "price fixing" in the marketplace.
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"Save America: Repeal Obamacare", The Washington Times
From the president's own cousin and physician, Milton Wolf, MD:
"Politicians are a curious breed. Their age-old solution to the problems created by their bad laws is always the same: more laws. Until we break this vicious cycle, we are destined to continue down our current downgraded-America path. The time to break that cycle is now, by keeping the focus on Obamacare until the 2012 election".
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"Will the Supreme Court Carve Up Obamacare?", Bloomberg Business Week
For insurance companies nervously watching the legal fight over the constitutionality of the President’s health-care law, it would be the unthinkable: The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the law’s so-called individual mandate, which requires millions of young, healthy people to buy coverage—but leaves intact rules compelling insurers to cover sick people, who are likely to cost far more in benefits than they pay in premiums. Congress is then left to fix the problem.
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"States Should Return Obamacare Grants, Pursue Own Healthcare Reform", Heritage Foundation
The combined effect of these regulations and grant requirements are that a state would have to agree to surrender any last vestiges of meaningful control over how Obamacare is implemented. Thus, a state would now have no more real control over an exchange it set up than over one HHS established.
While just 24 months remain until exchanges must open for business, HHS has made little discernable progress toward creating federal fallback exchanges.
Consequently, at this point the best course of action for states is to neither apply for nor accept exchange establishment grant funding.
Instead, state lawmakers should pursue their own patient-centered, market-based reforms separate from and independent of Obamacare, using only private-sector or state resources. In particular, state lawmakers interested in creating a defined-contribution option for employment-based coverage should ensure that any “exchange” or “clearinghouse” to handle the administrative functions does not receive federal funding.
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"Another Unpleasant Surprise From Obamacare",
The Washington Times Cornell University economics professor Richard Burkhauser showed that in 2014, millions of low-income Americans may be unable to get subsidized health insurance through the new health care exchanges.
It's true that under Obamacare, firms with more than 49 workers have to offer affordable health insurance coverage to full-time employees or pay a penalty. But the coverage only has to be for an individual policy, not a family policy.
And what most people don't know is that if a worker receives coverage for a single person from his employer, his family will not be able to get subsidized health insurance coverage under the exchange.
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