Despite the rhetoric and generous Obamacare subsidy, there is a new and damning report out this week that the Medicaid program doesn’t make people healthier among a series of benchmarks. “Medicaid coverage generated no significant improvements in measured physical health outcomes in the first 2 years, but […]
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A major deadline comes this Friday in the implementation of the massive restructuring of the U.S. healthcare system. Under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (aka – Obamacare), all 50 States have until Friday to decide whether they will set up health insurance exchanges. The health […]
Read more →In the past 48 hours, since the election results were complete, over 40 major American companies announced job cuts and layoffs. I wonder why. In completely unrelated news, I’m sure, the Heritage Foundation asks a very good question… What’s next for Obamacare now? The bad news is […]
Read more →This is out in major newspapers across the USA today. -Bruce
Read more →This has been a topic I’ve discussed here before — the looming “fiscal cliff” facing the U.S. economy in 2013. I’ve also voiced concern that, just as happened when the Bush tax rates were in jeopardy in the past, the current business decision-making is stalling due to […]
Read more →As someone who has worked with the provider community since 1997, I know the trouble that they have increasingly faced with private and public reimbursements going down while their expenses continue to rise. One of the biggest flaws in Obamacare is the lack of attention to physican […]
Read more →Suddenly Medicare reform and cuts are front and center in the 2012 Presidential race. That is mainly due to Gov. Mitt Romney’s pick of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis) as his running mate. Rep. Ryan is the philosophical standard bearer of the Republican Budget that has passed […]
Read more →Yesterday, an important story came out relative to the changes in the healthcare marketplace. As reported at FreeEnterprise.com: Consulting company Deloitte will release a study today [Tuesday] that estimates that that almost one in ten companies will drop coverage in the next three years. “Around 81% were planning […]
Read more →This is a scary proposition. The Daily Caller reports…. Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association. In my work with physicians and national doctors’ organizations, […]
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