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Bidding Wars
The bidding wars over a Medicare prescription drug benefit accelerated this week, with both House and Senate Democrats offering plans that seem initially generous to seniors but which would quickly lead to heavy-handed, destructive, and ultimately unworkable price setting - and huge new costs to taxpayers. The House Democratic version offered yesterday would require seniors to pay a $100 … [Read more...] about Bidding Wars
Bidding Wars
The bidding wars over a Medicare prescription drug benefit accelerated this week, with both House and Senate Democrats offering plans that seem initially generous to seniors but which would quickly lead to heavy-handed, destructive, and ultimately unworkable price setting - and huge new costs to taxpayers. The House Democratic version offered yesterday would require seniors to pay a … [Read more...] about Bidding Wars
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… [Read more...] about 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 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 MedicineHIPAA and the Criminalization of American Medicine
HIPAA and the Criminalization of American Medicine
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