Waste, fraud, and abuse in federal health care programs are serious problems, but so are the federal government’s efforts to combat them.There are egregious cases of fraud, and those engaged in these criminal activities should be stopped and prosecuted. But an expanding dragnet for “health care criminals” is threatening and intimidating innocent doctors as well. It is creating an unhealthy climate … [Read more...] about HIPAA and the Criminalization of American Medicine
HIPAA and the Criminalization of American Medicine
Waste, fraud, and abuse in federal health care programs are serious problems, but so are the federal government’s efforts to combat them.There are egregious cases of fraud, and those engaged in these criminal activities should be stopped and prosecuted. But an expanding dragnet for “health care criminals” is threatening and intimidating innocent doctors as well. It is creating an unhealthy climate … [Read more...] about HIPAA and the Criminalization of American Medicine
How Mandates Increase Costs and Reduce Access to Health Care
On Call at the White House: One Physician's Dual Role
How Mandates Increase Costs and Reduce Access to Health Care
On Call at the White House: One Physician’s Dual Role
Dim and Bright Lights
The health care focus this week was not in Washington but in the media. Most notable: A shockingly one-side program hosted by ABC's Peter Jennings which aired on Wednesday night, called "Bitter Medicine: Pills, Profits, and the Public Health." Jennings did everything he could to label pharmaceutical companies as profit-hungry villains with little or no redeeming social value and finds … [Read more...] about Dim and Bright Lights
Dim and Bright Lights
The health care focus this week was not in Washington but in the media. Most notable: A shockingly one-side program hosted by ABC's Peter Jennings which aired on Wednesday night, called "Bitter Medicine: Pills, Profits, and the Public Health." Jennings did everything he could to label pharmaceutical companies as profit-hungry villains with little or no redeeming social value and finds … [Read more...] about Dim and Bright Lights