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Faulty information and mistakes in the middle of a crisis, such as the coronavirus pandemic, are to be expected. We’re way past honest mistakes here.
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Fear of litigation delayed delivery of millions of N95 masks for healthcare workers. Should the law be slowing our emergency response?
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In short, providing Medicare for All to millions of illegal immigrants is immoral, impractical, and completely unaffordable.
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Health Care
Attacks on Direct Primary Care Shows How Government Is Steamrolling Our Lives
by AnneMarie Schieber November 14, 2019With every week that passes, another direct primary care (DPC) practice opens its doors.
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Health Care
“Medicare for All” Model Set Back Kidney Care by Stifling Innovation and Access
by AnneMarie Schieber September 11, 2019If voters want a lesson in how a socialized health care system would work, they should learn how the U.S. health care system treats (or more accurately, mistreats) kidney patients.
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This month Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) released her long-awaited health care plan. Like most proposals from Harris, who is running for president, her plan to address America’s health care woes is full of hyperbole and void of detail.
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Health Care
The De-sciencing of American Medicine and What It Means to You
by Jane M. Orient, M.D. September 13, 2018With all the talk about “evidence-based medicine,” you might think that doctors were becoming much more focused on rigorous science.
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The future of Obamacare is as tenuous as ever thanks to the Trump administration’s restoration of federalism.
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A bill that would give doctors the right to defend themselves if brought before the state licensure board, the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners (LSBME), was heard in the Louisiana state House of Representatives on May 2.
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Health Care
Mandates: the Other Side of the ‘Right to Healthcare’
by Jane M. Orient, M.D. May 1, 2018A “right to healthcare” is a seductive idea that many Americans accept without thinking. But we need to take a closer look at what this means.
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Too many politicians are willing to fleece taxpayers for political gain.
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Health Care
Physicians Sue Over Monopolistic “Maintenance of Certification” (MOC®)
by Dr. Alieta Eck February 20, 2018Before 1990, American physicians who had completed 3 years or more of rigorous training in a specialty and passed an examination were awarded lifetime “board certification.”
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Health Care
Medicaid Expansion Is a Prescription for Disaster in Maine
by Jesse Hathaway October 23, 2017In November, Maine residents will be confronted with a ballot question asking them to expand MaineCare.