Imagine that all the pharmaceutical companies united to create an institute for quality research, and gave it $1 billion to study “comparative effectiveness” — whether drugs still under patent worked better for people than cheaper generics. Imagine that the pharma companies dug farther into their pockets and came up with another $11 million to train physicians, pharmacists and nurses to be … [Read more...] about The Daily: Agency sets an unhealthy precedent for ‘effectiveness’ research
AAPS Town Hall: Restoring Medical Freedom
Grace Marie Turner discusses the possible outcomes of the Supreme Court's upcoming decision on ObamaCare, the critical 2012 elections, and the importance of allowing true market-based solutions. This talk was given at the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons "Restoring Medical Freedom" Town Hall in Somerset, New Jersey on May 18, 2012. … [Read more...] about AAPS Town Hall: Restoring Medical Freedom
Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. and Jason Fodeman, M.D.: ICD-10 Implementation Date: Better Never Than Later?
HHS recently announced hospitals and physicians have to adopt a new generation of diagnosis codes by October 1, 2014. Providers have to adopt what is effectively the tenth generation of the codes of International Classification of Diseases, known as “ICD-10.” The main difference between the current ICD-9 codes and the new set, is there are many more codes, and they are filled with redundancies and … [Read more...] about Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. and Jason Fodeman, M.D.: ICD-10 Implementation Date: Better Never Than Later?
Let Freedom Ring
ObamaCare’s threat to religious liberty is reaching a crescendo, with 43 Catholic organizations filing suit in federal court to challenge the HHS mandate of sterilization, contraception, and abortion-inducing drugs as a violation of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc … [Read more...] about Let Freedom Ring
Sally Pipes: GOP Ready With Alternatives If ObamaCare’s Repealed
Republicans and Democrats alike are anxiously awaiting the Supreme Court's judgment regarding the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law, which is expected by June 25. Democrats appear to be girding themselves for a loss by accusing Republicans of lacking an actionable plan for fixing America's health care system if ObamaCare is invalidated. Journalists have bought the line. … [Read more...] about Sally Pipes: GOP Ready With Alternatives If ObamaCare’s Repealed
Though The U.S. Is Healthcare’s World Leader, Its Innovative Culture Is Threatened
The United States remains the world leader in medical innovation, having produced more than half of the world’s new medicines over the last decade. But our edge is slipping away because of crippling domestic regulatory and tax policies. A new report by Battelle, an international science and technology company, found that other countries are working aggressively to lure research facilities and … [Read more...] about Though The U.S. Is Healthcare’s World Leader, Its Innovative Culture Is Threatened
Tom Miller: Entitlement reform for the highly educated
Former OMB factotum (let’s make that “health policy adviser without fixed portfolio”) Zeke Emanuel has returned to academic life, but he opines periodically in a New York Times opinion column. On Sunday, the improbable happened. He proposed an idea for entitlement reform that should not be rejected out of hand—graduated eligibility based on lifetime income for Social Security and … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: Entitlement reform for the highly educated
Shawn Tully: Even with a High Court win, Obamacare won’t work
The Obama administration maintains that its Affordable Care Act is a complex construct that's endangered if the Supreme Court finds its central feature -- the requirement that all Americans buy health insurance -- unconstitutional. It's certainly true that eliminating the "individual mandate" will immediately expose the plan as unworkable. It can only succeed by creating a broad, universal … [Read more...] about Shawn Tully: Even with a High Court win, Obamacare won’t work