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The Obamacare death panel should be killed before it’s too late.
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Heartland Speaker Warns Millennials to Take Healthcare and Health Insurance Seriously
by Nancy Thorner June 19, 2017Charlie Katebi – a fellow in health care reform at the Millennial Policy Center at the Liberty Group in Denver – spoke on the topic of “A Health Care Agenda for Millennials.”
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Nothing could be more confusing than fees charged by hospitals and doctors. There are many reasons why hospitals would like to keep it that way.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Hamilton & Haskins: Give Medicaid Funds Directly to Patients
by Michael Hamilton April 17, 2017Heartland experts unpack their plan, featured in The Wall Street Journal in April 2017, to put Medicaid patients in charge of their own health care decisions.
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Professor and student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health recently argued Republicans in Congress are trying to send health care to hell in a handbasket by repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.
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Doctors Want Face Time With Patients, Not Screen Time With CMS
by Michael Hamilton August 22, 2016The health care industry has entered a brave new world in which doctors spend up to half the length of each appointment looking past their patients at their computer monitors. Despite these appearances, doctors do prefer to treat the patient in front of them, not stare at the computer screen next to them.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Jeffrey English: Bring Doctors to Patients with Telemedicine
by Michael Hamilton August 4, 2016With one hand on his cell phone and other on a landline receiver, Dr. Jeffrey English took today’s podcast interview with Health Care News Managing Editor Michael Hamilton. English was on call to treat by telemedicine stroke patients in rural Georgia and other states. Fortunately, before he had to run, we captured his expert opinion on how telemed is pushing back the new frontier of patient-centered, cost-effective health care innovation.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Gerard Gianoli: Debunking the Hysteria Around Medical Errors Report
by Michael Hamilton June 23, 2016In today’s extended edition of the Health Care News Podcast, Dr. Gerard Gianoli joined Health Care News Managing Editor Michael Hamilton to help set Americans straight on legitimate reasons for disgruntlement with our nation’s health care system–and utterly bogus ones.
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American Docs Need to Learn From Royal College of Physicians
by Jeff Stier June 15, 2016England’s Royal College of Physicians (RCP) recommended on April 28th that doctors “promote the use of e-cigarettes, NRT and other non-tobacco nicotine products as widely as possible as a substitute for smoking in the UK.”
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Meg Edison: Surrendering Board Certification to Increase Patient Care
by Michael Hamilton June 8, 2016Meet a pediatrician who voluntarily surrendered her board certification in order to protest extortion of physicians by the American Board of Medical Specialties, provide better care for her patients, and influence lawmakers to act.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Mike Koriwchak: “Meaningful Use” Regulations Killed Health Record Innovation
by Michael Hamilton May 18, 2016In today’s Health Care News Podcast, Dr. Mike Koriwchak, vice president of Docs4PatientCare Foundation and co-host of The Doctor’s Lounge joined Heartland research fellow and Health Care News Managing Editor Michael Hamilton to share why the day the feds rolled out “meaningful use” was the day innovation died in the realm of EMR and EHR, and how lawmakers and CMS can help revive it.
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The Zika Virus Disease Outbreak: What Should We Do?
by Jane M. Orient, M.D. February 9, 2016The latest public health panic is over a disease most Americans (even doctors) have never heard of. Zika virus disease (ZVD) is carried by the same mosquito, Aedes aegypti, as other Third World diseases, including dengue and chikungunya.