A new article at Forbes.com explains why "closing Medicare's 'donut hole' is a terrible idea." Avik Roy explains that the very existence of the donut hole came about as an important cost-saving measure in Medicare's prescription drug program (known as "Part D").
Read More
Blog and News
"Docs4PatientCare.org is a politically neutral grassroots coalition of physicians. Use of any politically partisan terms does not reflect the position of Docs4PatientCare.org. We do encourage our speakers to express how they feel and we post articles based on their informative content only. Any politically partisan language used does not reflect the group as a whole. Specific party or political allegiances and opposition are not our intent. The goal of D4PC is only to advocate for effective and responsible health care reform."
"Closing Medicare's 'Donut Hole' is a Terrible Idea"
Thursday, May 24, 2012
How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Increases Health Care Costs
Friday, May 18, 2012
A new article explains how government policies that favor employer-provided health insurance actually contribute to the rising cost of health care. The article states:
Read More
Aetna Offers Individual Plans To Costco Members In Illinois, Market Watch
Friday, May 11, 2012
Aetna announced today it is now offering individual health insurance plans to Costco members in Illinois. The Costco Personal Health Insurance program, of which there are five plans to choose from, offers broad major medical benefits, an extensive network of doctors and hospitals, and a variety of helpful services, tools and information, tailored to meet the needs of Costco members.
In addition to Illinois, the Costco Personal Health Insurance program is also available to Costco members in Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia. Aetna plans to expand the program to other markets later this year.
Read more on this subject here.
Read More
D4PC "Morning Rounds" Friday, May 4, 2012
Friday, May 04, 2012
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.
Read More
Asking the RIght Question as Part of Health Care Reform
Monday, April 16, 2012
In a recent article, Dave Racer contends that PPACA was enacted after Congress asked the wrong questions about healthcare reform. WIth Congress asking the wrong questions, Racer contends, Congress will arrive at the wrong solutions for reform.
Read More
Free Market Lessons
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Dr. Paul Hsieh, MD - a member of the Colorado Chapter of Docs4PatientCare - has published a new commentary at Pajamas Media. Using the recent debate over the contraception mandate, Dr. Hsieh makes three key points:
Read More
Doctor Diaries: Exiting the Game, Par80
Saturday, February 25, 2012
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.
Read More
Can Healthcare Be Bought And Sold On eBay? Townhall.com
Saturday, February 25, 2012
A small, emerging online service called MediBid is creating an actual market that puts doctors together with patients who need care. Patients who use this service can cut their health care costs in half.
After the government suppression of normal market forces for the better part of a century, hospitals are rarely interested in competing on price for patients they are likely to get as customers anyway. Markets in medical care can work and work well — provided government gets out of the way.
Read More
After the government suppression of normal market forces for the better part of a century, hospitals are rarely interested in competing on price for patients they are likely to get as customers anyway. Markets in medical care can work and work well — provided government gets out of the way.
Read More
A Commentary on the Health Care Compact
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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.
Read More
Obama's Coming War on Doctors
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
The American Thinker has a new article written by Scott Kirwin that deconstructs a recent Health Affairs study (written by Sherry Glied and Miriam Laugesen) that compared physician pay in the United States to that of doctors in other countries. In short, the study reaches the conclusion that doctors are "overpaid." Kirwin notes that the study was written in part by Sherry Gilead who is currently working in the Obama Administration.
Read More
Recent Posts
- Regardless of What Happens at the Court, ObamaCare Won't Work
- "Closing Medicare's 'Donut Hole' is a Terrible Idea"
- Drs. Scherz and Armstrong: There Will Never Be Another Mayo Clinic
- Hsieh: Dr. Orwell Will See You Now
- Putting Insurance Back in Health Insurance
- D4PC "Morning Rounds", Monday, May 21, 2012
- How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Increases Health Care Costs
- Just Who Should Control Your Healthcare Spending?
- The War Against Doctors, TownHall.com
- ObamaCare Pharmaceutical Tax Threatens Next Generation of Prescription Drugs
Tags
- 10th Amendment (1)
- AARP (2)
- accountable care (7)
- ACO (18)
- alternative HCR proposals (14)
- AMA (9)
- awards (4)
- Berwick (2)
- Beth Haynes (4)
- Book Reviews (2)
- bribes (12)
- British healthcare system (5)
- budget deficits (17)
- bureacracy (16)
- Bureaucracy (4)
- CLASS (1)
- clips (3)
- Colorado (1)
- commerce clause (2)
- Compact (1)
- comparative effectiveness research (8)
- concierge medicine (1)
- Conscience Clause (2)
- constitutionality (46)
- Contraception Mandate (1)
- Cost Miscalculations (7)
- cost shifting (10)
- costs (22)
- cost-shifting (1)
- court challenges (29)
- D4PC Events (1)
- D4PC opinion (5)
- deals (14)
- decreased quality (11)
- defensive medicine (2)
- Dick Armstrong (1)
- diminished physician autonomy (17)
- Dispelling Healthcare Myths (1)
- Donald Berwick (8)
- Electronic Medical Record (1)
- Elena Kagan (5)
- Elena Kagen (3)
- entitltement growth (6)
- Evidence-based Medicine (1)
- Exchanges (10)
- expensive business mandates (2)
- Expensive Mandates (1)
- Favors/Special Interest Groups (3)
- feature (1)
- Fee For Service (1)
- Foreign health systems (18)
- Frank Rosenbloom (1)
- free market (13)
- free-market healthcare (12)
- generic medications (4)
- government intrusion (21)
- government run healthcare (31)
- Grace-Marie Turner (5)
- Hal Scherz (29)
- Health IT, Obamacare (1)
- healthcare access issues (3)
- Healthcare cost-drivers (2)
- Heritage Foundation (5)
- HHS (8)
- Hidden Costs (5)
- High deductible insurance plans (3)
- HMO (1)
- House budget (1)
- HSAs (10)
- ICD-10 (1)
- impact on business (20)
- Impact on Consumers (10)
- Impact on Deficit/Debt (5)
- impact on doctors (16)
- impact on economy (14)
- impact on hospitals (5)
- Impact on Jobs (4)
- impact on patients (39)
- impact on seniors (14)
- Impact on Small Business (3)
- impact on the economy (11)
- impact on the economy, socialized medicine (2)
- Impact on Women (1)
- Impact on Young Adults/Kids (2)
- increased taxes (6)
- increased waiting times (4)
- Independent Payment Advisory Board (22)
- individual mandate (18)
- innovation and technology (7)
- insurance premiums (19)
- insurance subsidies (8)
- IPAB (9)
- IRS (1)
- Jill Vecchio (7)
- malpractice reform (6)
- Mark Neerhof (3)
- Massachusetts model (6)
- Mayo Clinic (1)
- media bias (3)
- Medicaid (27)
- Medicaid Expansion (1)
- medical loss ratio (1)
- medicare (47)
- Medicare Advantage (2)
- Michigan (2)
- Mitch McConnell (1)
- Mitt Romney (3)
- Morning Rounds (73)
- Obamacare (19)
- op-eds (6)
- patient freedom of choice (18)
- patient outcomes (2)
- Patient Privacy (8)
- patient-centered reforms (9)
- Paul Hsieh (5)
- Paul Ryan (10)
- physician shortage (2)
- polling (5)
- PPACA (33)
- PPACA repeal (2)
- Premium Increases (2)
- premium support (2)
- press releases (1)
- price controls (5)
- private insurance (3)
- private practice (4)
- Propaganda (3)
- rationing (19)
- Reforming Medicare (2)
- regulatory burden (1)
- repeal (5)
- Romney health plan (3)
- Ryan plan (7)
- Sally Pipes (7)
- Sebelius (10)
- small business tax credit (1)
- socialized medicine (7)
- Spending (3)
- state budget deficits (10)
- state budgets (2)
- state insurance exchanges (11)
- state models (7)
- State of the Union (1)
- state opt out (3)
- Supreme Court (12)
- tax credits (3)
- Tax Reform (2)
- Taxes (1)
- tort reform (3)
- unintended consequences (20)
- union payoffs (4)
- US Senate and Repeal (1)
- USA health rankings (4)
- Vermont (2)
- video (3)
- waivers (13)
- Washington D.C. (11)
- WH deception (6)
- WH propaganda (3)
- WHite House Deception (17)
- White House propaganda (19)
- Women's Health (2)
Archive
D4PC provides links to other Internet sites only for the convenience of web users. D4PC is not responsible for the availability or content of these external sites, nor does the D4PC endorse, warrant or guarantee the products, services or information described or offered at these other Internet sites.