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States Should Abandon CON Laws And Put Patients First
by AnneMarie Schieber May 15, 2019For decades, states have had certificate-of-need (CON) laws that require health care investors to get permission from an appointed board before they can expand, purchase a new device, or offer new medical technology.
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Over the past several decades, American families have experienced skyrocketing health-care costs.
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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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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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Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Kathleen Brown: Opt-In for a Cash Practice, Opt-Out of Medicare and Insurance
by Michael Hamilton August 18, 2016Patients save on expenses and anxiety when they visit Dr. Kathleen Brown’s clinic, Oregon Coast Dermatology. Brown converted her practice almost entirely to a cash business in 2011, after 16 years of diverting her own and her patients’ time and money to satisfy cumbersome requirements foisted upon doctors by the federal government and insurance companies.
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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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Florida Can Curb Doctor Shortage, in Part, by Empowering Nurses
by Logan Pike May 22, 2016Decades of overregulation of the health-care labor market, an aging population and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act have created a shortage of primary-care doctors nationwide.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Rep. Cameron Sexton (TN): Government Regs Hurt Health Care Quality, Raise Costs
by Michael Hamilton April 5, 2016On today’s Health Care News Podcast, Tennessee state Rep. Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) joined Health Care News Managing Editor Michael Hamilton to explain why reforming Tennessee’s certificate of need (CON) laws will go far to improve health care quality, lower costs, and increase access for patients.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Sally Pipes: The Way Out of Obamacare
by Michael Hamilton March 15, 2016In this edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Research Fellow and Health Care News Managing Editor Michael Hamilton interviews Sally Pipes, executive director and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute about her plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).