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Two of Docs4PatientCare's members, Dr. Kenneth Fisher, MD and Dr. Lee S. Gross, MD, have published a new opinion piece for The Washington Times titled, "Prudence of a Patient-Centered Approach, Allowing Patients to Choose Level of Care Would Result in Savings". 

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Earlier this month, James Capretta tackled 5 of the most frequent arguments against health care reform that would move programs like Medicare into a premium support program. Capretta defends against the claim that reform would lead to cost-shifting; that Medicare is more efficient than the private market; that Medicare has not seen healthcare inflation to the degree the private market has; that the model for premium support - the Medicare Part D program, has not worked; and that government can work better to design a healthcare delivery system than the government can. 

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Most people agree that the way we pay for health care in the USA is broken, but they do not agree on the “fix."  PPACA (“Obamacare”) was marketed as the “fix” for all this, by way of more rules, more mandates, more taxes, more financial carrots and sticks, and more enforcement. And the cost?  Some of the costs include further loss of patient choice, and a bigger, more expensive GAME, whether it morphs into a single payer system or not. 

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A recent editorial published at A Line of Sight details many problems associated with the health care compact, an idea that has begun to take root in many states. The commentary should give doctors, patients and elected officials pause before they conclude the compact is good policy. 

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This spring, after living under the costly failures of Obamacare-like health care legislation for two decades, the Maine Legislature enacted a set of patient-centered, market-based health care reforms. The Maine experience is both a warning of Obamacare’s likely effects and a practical demonstration to other states of how to enact sound free-market health care reforms in spite of Obamacare. Maine has also shown how much more it and other states could accomplish if not hamstrung by Obamacare and how Congress could chart a better course toward more innovative and effective health care reform.  Please click on link below to learn more. 

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"Making Health Insurance More Accessible", The Heritage Foundation

Alternative proposals to make health insurance more accessible and affordable while minimizing federal control and encouraging individual freedom of choice. 

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