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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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The Obama re-election campaign is mailing out fliers championing his health-care law as a great benefit to women. Sorry: It diminishes women’s freedom and privacy.

The Obama law vastly expands the president’s power over your insurance plan, your doctors’ decisions and your medical records. Not just this president’s power, but every future president. Why are women’s rights advocates so sure they’ll always agree with the person occupying the White House? 

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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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After receiving the prestigious Salvatori Prize from the Heritage Foundation, Dr. Hal Scherz, the founder and president of Docs 4 Patient Care, sat down for an interview with Heritage's own Insider Online. During the course of that interview, Dr. Scherz offered his perspective on health care reform, which is also reflected in D4PC's Prescription for Healthcare Reform:

"The problem with Obamacare is that it is a top-down system. It is government-run. President Obama and his supporters believe that the government is better at making health care decisions than patients are, and that is just absolutely flat out wrong. Patients need to be in charge of their health care. Patients need to be the ones who can purchase insurance and get tax credits like employers. Patients need to be the ones to decide who their doctor is going to be and they have to be the ones who decide how they are going to pay for it and not let a third party pay for it. We have to revamp the entire health care delivery model so that people are in charge through high-deductible health savings accounts, so that the first dollar out is their dollar and not the insurance company’s or the government’s. Whoever is controlling the payment of health care is controlling the health care of the individual. That should be the patients and not the government or insurance companies."

Read the full interview here.  

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