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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Maryland's Medical Malpractice Mess  Subsidies are a Weak Substitute for Real Reform Filed As:  Health Care In 2003, Maryland was suffering a serious case of medical malpractice abuse: litigation was so out of control that physicians could not pay their premiums.  Unfortunately, instead of enacting responsible med-mal reform, as then Gov. Ehrlich proposed, legislators decided to shift the pain from ... more »» posted by John R. Graham 7:55 pm 2 comments

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 IHOP Avenged? State Variation in Health Spending  Experts Ignoring Root Causes Causes Confusion Filed As:  Health Care The Index of Health Ownership holds that big government spending and over regulation are harmful to people's health.  Unfortunately, many in academia are unwilling to consider this hypothesis.  So, they ... more »» posted by John R. Graham 1:38 pm 1 comment

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Stockholm Syndrome in California's Business Community  Another Employer Group Begs to Be Taxed Filed As:  Health Care Although Governor Schwarzenegger's health reform plan has staggered along since January without enlisting any legislator to propose enabling legislation, and the Legislature recessed with the governor guaranteeing to veto the Democratic majority's alternative, a ... more »» posted by John R. Graham 9:00 pm 1 comment

Thursday, September 13, 2007 Hasn't Massachusetts Abolished the Uninsured?  Didn't Safety-Net Hospitals Get the Memo? Filed As:  Health Care If you have any doubt that the wheels have come off Commonwealth Care, the Massachusetts health reform that former Gov. Romney signed inApril 2006, read the latest from the Alliance of Massachusetts Safety Net Hospitals,which is upset that the state proposes to “cut millions of dollars from annual ... more »» posted by John R. Graham 2:28 pm 0 comment

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Gadzooks! A Clever Counter to Convenient Clinics  A doctor responds by changing his practice instead of whining to the state Filed As:  Health Care So, there is at least one light in the darkness of organized medicine’s frantic attacks on convenient clinics – those storefront operations, often staffed by nurse practitioners and paid directly by patients, that offer some diagnoses and treatments, ... more »» posted by John R. Graham 5:31 pm 1 comment

Monday, September 10, 2007 Texas Chainsaw Massacre of Hospital Bureaucracy ---Or Not?  Patients, Not Politicians, Must Drive Price Transparency Filed As:  Health Care Nobody should need convincing that one big obstacle to consumer-directed health care is that we don't know what health services cost. Worse, nobody wants to tell us. Over the last couple of years, this has led well-meaning, often conservative, legislators in many states to support legislation that ... more »» posted by John R. Graham 8:08 pm 2 comments

Friday, September 7, 2007 How Many Kids Could An SCHIP Cure, If An SCHIP Could Cure Kids?  A lot fewer than claimed in a recent medical journal article from Arizona! Filed As:  Health Care Tucson’s Arizona Daily Star recently ran an op-ed by a pediatrician, Dr. Kevin Dveirin, who is very upset about President Bush’s proposed new rules requiring states to enroll 95 percent of poor kids in state children’s ... more »» posted by John R. Graham 7:43 pm 0 comment

Thursday, September 6, 2007 Turf Protection Watch! (Crisis of Convenience, Pt.2)  Mass. physicians' attack on "convenient clinics" dishonors their profession Filed As:  Health Care The Boston Globe reports on docs' disgraceful lobbying in Boston. It's no wonder the Bay State’s health costs continue to rise uncontrollably. That the ... more »» posted by John R. Graham 3:49 pm 1 comment

Wednesday, September 5, 2007 Thick & THIN (or Pennywise & Pound Foolish?)  The Trials of a Lipid Lowering Medicine Filed As:  Health Care From the European Society of Cardiology Congress: a presentation of the results of an almost eight-year long observational study of 4.77 million patients in Great Britain’s THIN (The Health ... more »» posted by John R. Graham 7:39 pm 0 comment

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Messing Up Health Insurance in California  Rogue Regulator Wrapped Up in Own Red Tape? Filed As:  Health Care The Los Angeles Times is disappointed in the slow pace of health regulatory action. Californian health insurers have the privilege of serving two regulators: the Department of Managed Health ... more »» posted by John R. Graham 5:35 pm 0 comment

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