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Quality and Value in Health Care Explained

written by Jane M. Orient, M.D.

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Doctors Want Face Time With Patients, Not Screen Time With CMS

by Michael Hamilton August 22, 2016

The 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. Mike Koriwchak: CMS’s Arbitrary Doctor Rating System

by Michael Hamilton June 16, 2016

In today’s Health Care News podcast, returning guest Dr. Mike Koriwchak, vice president of Docs4PatientCare Foundation and co-host of The Doctor’s Lounge Radio Show, urged listeners to take advantage of the comment period, open through June 27, 2016 at 11:59 PM ET, for a new rule proposed for implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS

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Democrats Are On A Crusade To Hide Their Radicalism In Plain Sight February 24, 2020
Joshua Geltzer’s argument to strip states of congressional representation is just the latest extremist claim from the left that get laundered by the media.
Ross McKitrick: It’s never enough with climate activists — even a staggering $10 billion from Jeff Bezos February 24, 2020
Observers might conclude activists don't care about the climate per se but instead want to impose a big-government central planning regime.
Fracking Ban Would Hurt Environment February 21, 2020
If a policymaker proposed banning cars and trucks or reducing the speed limit to 5 mph to reduce traffic fatalities, he or she would be laughed off the stage.
I Lived In Russia When Bernie Sanders Visited, And He's A Dupe February 21, 2020
Bernie Sanders, a man who could be led astray so easily by KGB minders and a Potemkin tour of the USSR, should never be president of the United States.
How MLB Should Have Punished The Astros For Cheating In 2017 February 19, 2020
MLB should erase the Astros' participation from the record books and vacate the 2017 championship, not because they won by cheating, but because they cheated.
Pontificating Politicians Plan To Outlaw The Engine, But Forecasters Say Nothing Much Changes February 19, 2020
A big gap is opening up between what politicians say, urged on by high-profile environmentalists like Greta Thunberg, and what is happening in the real world.
Reaching Peak Progressivism February 19, 2020
The frightening visions of the new peak progressives will ensure the reelection of Donald Trump.
The ‘Other Side’ Is Not Dumb February 16, 2020
In psychology, the idea that everyone is like us is called the “false-consensus bias.”
Media Will Never Understand U.S. If They Keep Hating Trump Voters February 14, 2020
The mainstream media will spend a lot of effort this year reporting on Trump voters, but very little effort trying to understand or empathize with them.
After Attending a Trump Rally, I Realized Democrats Are Not Ready For 2020 February 14, 2020
The more voices outside the left that I listened to, the more I realized that these were not bad people.