Category: Health

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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New Book, “Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians,” To Be Released

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Tells Intimate Stories of People Who Suffer Because of Medicare's Policies Why Senator Bernie Sanders' "Medicare-for-All" Won't Work Washington, D.C. - Dr. David Hogberg, senior fellow and health care policy analyst for the National Center for Public Policy Research, is ...
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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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Medicare’s Victims: Available One Week from Today

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My book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, will be available next Monday, July 6.  You can pre-order now at Amazon.com.  Both paperback and Kindle versions are available. In the coming ...
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Horace Cooper Rumbles with Thom Hartmann on Trade, Trans Fats, Climate Change and Women’s Health Funding

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On June 17, Horace Cooper held back no punches as part of “The Big Picture Rumble” on the RT Network. Host Thom Hartmann moderated the panel that also included Bryan Pruitt of RedState.com and TJ Helmstetter of the Progressive Change ...
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Justice Scalia May Be Snarky, But He’s Also Quite Correct

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The Washington Post's Wonkblog staff, in an article published at 10:33 AM today, says Associate Justice Antonin Scalia "may have already won for snarkiness" in his dissent in the Obamacare case handed down today. It is amusing that the Post ...
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Supreme Court Ruling in King v. Burwell Means Americans Will Have to Wait Longer for a Free-Market Health Care System

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ObamaCare Is Unsustainable as Exchanges Will Eventually Devolve into a Death Spiral Ruling Also a Blow to the Rule of Law Washington, D.C. - The Supreme Court's ruling in King v. Burwell means Americans will have to wait longer for ...
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The Patient Freedom Act: A Roadmap for ObamaCare Opponents if Plaintiffs Win in King v. Burwell

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If the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs in the soon-to-be announced decision on King v. Burwell, over 7 million people in the 37 states without state-based exchanges will lose their subsidies.1 That's because the plaintiffs in ...
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