By Grace-Marie Turner The growing bureaucratization of medicine presents a serious threat to physicians’ ability to provide quality patient care. Whether through big government or mega hospital systems, innovation and detailed attention to the needs of individual patients will suffer. The pain will be especially acute for independent practices specializing in primary care. They operate with … [Read more...] about Government Bureaucracy Will Stifle All
Archives for March 2014
David Hogberg: ObamaCare Exchanges: Less Choice, Higher Prices
National Center for Public Policy Research, March 2014 Many supporters of ObamaCare insisted that the health insurance exchanges created by the law would result in consumers having a greater choice among insurance policies and lower prices. This study tests those claims by examining policies on the exchanges in metropolitan areas across 45 states for a single 27-year-old and a 57-year-old … [Read more...] about David Hogberg: ObamaCare Exchanges: Less Choice, Higher Prices
New Rule Creates Avalanche Of Time-Wasting Paperwork For Doctors
By Grace-Marie Turner and Tyler Hartsfield Were you hit by a falling kayak? Injured while baking, vacuuming or spending too much time in a deep freeze? Encountered a lamppost for the second time? Were you bitten by a turkey? Never fear, the ICD-10 is here. Starting this October, your doctor will be required to record precisely whether you were bitten or struck by a parrot, macaw, chicken, … [Read more...] about New Rule Creates Avalanche Of Time-Wasting Paperwork For Doctors
Florida Charts a Path for Medicaid Reform
By Tyler Hartsfield and Grace-Marie Turner The Florida Legislature continues to receive pressure to accept ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion, which would offer Florida about $51 billion in federal funds over ten years and force an additional 1.1 million Floridians into Medicaid coverage. But the state legislature is hesitant to expand a Medicaid program that is already overburdened and has poor … [Read more...] about Florida Charts a Path for Medicaid Reform
Rasmussen Reports: Health Care Law
Rasmussen Reports, March 3, 2014 One-in-three U.S. voters now says his or her health insurance coverage has changed as a result of Obamacare, and the same number say the new national health care law had a negative personal impact on them. Forty percent (40%) of Likely U.S. Voters have at least a somewhat favorable opinion of the health care law, while 56% regard it unfavorably, according to … [Read more...] about Rasmussen Reports: Health Care Law