In his most recent column for Townhall, Paul Hsieh examines one of the most important questions raised by ObamaCare. He begins with the following hypothetical:
Suppose you move to Las Vegas, and you hire a real estate agent to help you buy a house. She returns with several inappropriate choices—all too expensive and too far from your […]
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HSIEH: WHO WILL YOUR DOCTOR WORK FOR UNDER OBAMACARE?
HSIEH: HOW OBAMACARE PLAYS GAMES WITH YOUR LIFE
Over at Pajamas Media, Paul Hsieh discusses how ObamaCare’s “Accountable Care Organizations” incentivize doctors to make choices that aren’t in the patient’s best interest:
Under the ACO system, patients basically become cost centers for hospitals and doctors. ObamaCare … Hence, even if a patient sees a specialist in another city who then orders expensive tests or […]
VIDEO: THE SENATE SPEECH THAT KILLED OBAMACARE’S “SECRET SHOPPER” PROGRAM
This afternoon, HHS announced it would kill the secret shopper program. The apparatchiks claim that the decision was the result of careful review of “feedback received during the comment period,” but the obvious reason was the uproar caused the NYT piece noted in this post and this floor speech by Republican Senator Mark Kirk:
OBAMACARE’S SECRET SHOPPERS
Another day, another intimidation tactic. This time the “most transparent administration in history” will deploy government snoops who will call the doctor’s office and pretend to be patients:
Obama administration officials are recruiting a team of ‘mystery shoppers’ to pose as patients, call doctors’ offices and request appointments to see how difficult it is for people to get […]
RAND PAUL SAYS TO BELIEVE IN A “RIGHT” TO HEALTH CARE IS TO BELIEVE IN SLAVERY
His point is actually pretty easy to understand, if you listen. If you have a “right� to health care, it means you have a “right� to someone else’s time and belongings. That “right� has a name, and Senator Paul is not afraid to use it:
With regard to the idea of whether you have a right […]
WRIST SLAPS FOR UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN DOCTORS WHO WROTE FAKE SICK NOTES
Oh, did you think those doctors we saw writing fraudulent sick notes were actually going to suffer serious consequences for their unprofessional and dishonest behavior? Wrong!
UW Health doctors who wrote sick notes for protesters at the Capitol in February face penalties up to a loss of pay and leadership positions, the UW School of Medicine […]
WOLF: FIRST, DO NO HARM
Dr. Milton Wolf enjoys a growing reputation as a blogger and a columnist for the Washington Times. He is also the President’s second cousin, which we try not to hold against him.
Now he’s a pamphleteer in the tradition of Tom Paine. His new pamphlet, First, Do No Harm, explains why his Hippocratic oath requires him to […]
VIDEO: OBAMACARE’S IMPACT ON DOCTORS
About 18 million of the patients ObamaCare will allegedly save from the awful fate of being uninsured will simply be signed up for Medicaid. Listen to this urologist describe what it’s like trying to get paid by Medicaid. Not only does Medicaid not pay enough to cover costs, it often doesn’t pay at all. Thus, […]
VIDEO: A DOCTOR EXPLAINS WHY OBAMACARE IS WRONG MEDICALLY AND MORALLY
This is a must watch: Dr. Beth Haynes of the Black Ribbon Project explains why ObamaCare is wrong from the perspectives of economics, medicine AND morality. Listen particularly closely to the quotes she provides from CMS administrator Donald Berwick and consider her words about capitalism as well:
[ht Paul Hsieh]
WISCONSIN: DEMS RUN & DOCTORS HIDE
Milton Wolf’s latest column for the Washington Times points out that Wisconsin Democrats, like their counterparts from Indiana, Texas and inside the Beltway, are cowards:
Wisconsin state Senate Democrats cowering under their beds in an Illinois no-tell motel … Indiana Democrats also turned Hoosier tail and ran to Illinois … In 2003, Texas Democrats went yellow and […]