Author: David Hogberg

ObamaCare + Illegal Immigration + California = Insanity

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I’m not really sure where to start with this, so let’s just start with the basics.  From the San Jose Mercury News: A first-in-the-nation bill aimed at expanding health care for illegal immigrants sailed through the Senate on Tuesday even ...
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Medicare Pits Doctors against Patients

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A quick note:  Tomorrow I’ll be presenting my book, Medicare’s Victims, at the Heritage Foundation at Noon.  Details here. Today the Washington Examiner has run my article, “Medicare’s midlife crisis: Catastrophic finances pit doctors against patients.”  In it I examine ...
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Dissecting Medicare

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Thanks to PJTV, which has aired the first television interview about my new book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians. It’s part of a series called “Keeping Your Gold In Your ...
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Think Progress Discovers Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Other Lite Fare

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1. From Think Progress:  “Serena Williams Beat Maria Sharapova For The 17th Straight Time. But Serena Still Makes Less Money.”  This is one of those great stories where the laughter starts with the headline.  While Williams has dominated Sharapova in ...
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Does Medicare Impoverish Those With Disabilities?

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In my new book, Medicare Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, I examine how the disabled fare with Medicare’s cost sharing. One disabled woman that I interviewed for the book was Francine ...
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Medicare Helps the Disabled–Or Not

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As noted in an earlier blog post, the leftist Commonwealth Fund is publishing a series of papers this month under the heading “Medicare at 50 Years.” The first report released under this series is entitled, “Medicare: 50 Years of Ensuring Coverage ...
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Medicare’s Victims: Order Your Copy!

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Finally!  Today is the official release of my book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians! It is available at Amazon.com, both paperback ($14.99) and Kindle ($6.99). For those of you who ...
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Medicare and the Gila Monster Threat!

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Apparently, the deadline to test the new ICD-10 system with Medicare has just passed. If you’re wondering what “ICD-10” is, don’t worry …actually you should worry, for reasons I’ll explain in a bit. Anyway, ICD stands for International Classification of Disease ...
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Medicare’s Innovation Center Will Be Captured by Big Medical Providers

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The Commonwealth Fund is publishing a series of papers this month under the heading “Medicare at 50 Years.”  Yesterday the Fund released a paper under this series entitled “Medicare Payment Reform: Aligning Incentives for Better Care.”  In it, the authors ...
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Why Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare-for-All” Won’t Work

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Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) recently said, “…we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.” For years now “Medicare-for-All” has been the rallying cry for single-payer advocates.  It is, if nothing else, shrewd marketing.  Medicare is very popular ...
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