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The Galen Institute's Grace-Marie Turner's latest column at National Review Online discussed the three scenarios for how the Supreme Court will decide the multi-state lawsuit challenging ObamaCare's individual mandate and the laws burdensome Medicaid requirements. Her article also contains a very disturbing fact. 

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Docs4PatientCare's Dr. Hal Scherz latest article has just been published at Townhall.com. He writes: 

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A very insightful new article at CNN Money explains that regardless of what happens at the Supreme Court next month, ObamaCare simply won't work. The article states: 

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A new article at Forbes.com explains why "closing Medicare's 'donut hole' is a terrible idea." Avik Roy explains that the very existence of the donut hole came about as an important cost-saving measure in Medicare's prescription drug program (known as "Part D").  

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Docs4PatientCare's Dr. Paul Hsieh's latest article at PJ Media warns bout the strategy that the advocates of the government takeover of healthcare will use to sell their idea to (and mislead) the American people. He writes: 

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Docs4PatientCare's Drs. Hal Scherz and Dick Armstrong have written a new article for Townhall.com. In their article they discuss the history of the Rochester-based Mayo Clinic, a hospital started on the premise that medical doctors would have the authority to make decisions based on what was in the best interest of their patients. Today, hospitals are no longer run with this principle in mind. Rather, critical decisions about patient care are dictated by policies implemented by government bureaucrats and hospital administrators and those may or may not serve the best interest of the patient. 

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Avik Roy of Forbes.com takes on the complexities of health insurance and how government policies have interfered with the operation of the health insurance market in ways that dramatically increases costs. Mr. Roy explains medical underwriting, community writing, guaranteed issue, benefit mandates among other issues. 

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Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice. 

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A new article explains how government policies that favor employer-provided health insurance actually contribute to the rising cost of health care. The article states: 

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Docs4PatientCare's Dr. Paul Hsieh had an article published at Forbes.com discussing the issue of who should control your healthcare spending. There are really only two choices. You can either control your own healthcare dollars, making your own informed decisions (just like you do in so many aspects of your life) or you can cede control to government bureaucrats. 

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Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute makes a very clear and concise case for how ObamaCare's tax increase on the pharmaceutical industry threatens the ability of the drug makers to bring innovative, life savings drugs to market. 

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President Obama is sure fond of telling people that Massachusetts served as the model for his healthcare legislation. So if the Mass-law is a preview of what is to come under ObamaCare, then doctors and patients should be very, very worried.  

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In her latest column, Grace-Marie Turner tackles the issue of medical innovation's future. One aspect of ObamaCare includes a significant tax increase on medical innovators. Ms. Turner explains the consequences of this tax: 

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D4PC surgeon, David Cossman, MD, provides a brilliant analysis of the pitfalls in the government's push for hospitals and physicians to implement the electronic medical record(EMR). As part of the PPACA (Obamacare), all physician practices must be EMR "compliant" by 2014. Advances in technology have greatly improved many aspects of our daily lives, however, the current design and function of the EMR is not being well-received by most physicians. Furthermore, as Dr. Cossman explains, the imposition of this technology is having a significant de-humanizing effect on patient care and is likely to reduce subsequent generations of physicians to mere drone-like data entry clerks. 

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is facing a dilemma. He has until Thursday, May 10 to either veto or sign a bill into law that would create New Jersey's ObamaCare health insurance exchanges. Of course, if he does nothing the bill goes into effect automatically. 

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Now that President Obama has officially launched his re-election campaign, it is "game on" to secure the support of a crucial voting block, American senior citizens. What better way to gain their trust than to implement his game-winning strategy of fear-mongering and politicizing the beloved Medicare program? The president is hoping that seniors will be influenced by the mainstream media and taxpayer funded infomercials extolling the benefits bestowed upon them as a result of the Affordable Care Act, however, the Medicare program is skirting on the edge of bankruptcy and will take America down with it. The good news is D4PC is on top of this contentious issue and in this article, Drs. Hal Scherz and Richard Armstrong clearly explain what is at stake for seniors and what they can do to preserve the program that so many seniors rely on. 

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Dr. Paul Hsieh, MD, a member of Docs4PatientCare's Colorado Chapter, has a new article on PJ Media detailing many of the errors in scientific and medical research, how significant government control over research has corrupted the integrity of the research process and the dangers of allowing the government to control research coupled with the ObamaCare's grant of authority to coerce doctors and force them to follow practice guidelines base on corrupt science. 

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Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.  

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Last week, Dr. Jane Hughes, MD, appeared on Neil Cavuto's show on the Fox Business Channel. The top of discussion was how ObamaCare will damage Medicare and issues related to the Supreme Court's deliberation over the individual mandate. 

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Two of Docs4PatientCare's members, Dr. Kenneth Fisher, MD and Dr. Lee S. Gross, MD, have published a new opinion piece for The Washington Times titled, "Prudence of a Patient-Centered Approach, Allowing Patients to Choose Level of Care Would Result in Savings". 

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Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.  

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According to PharmaTimes Online, Britain's National Institutes of Health are denying lupus patients access to the first new drug for this disease in 50 years. PharmaTimes reports NIH "concluded that Benlysta (belimumab) could not be considered a cost-effective use of NHS resources for patients with active autoantibody positive systemic lupus erythematosus with a high degree of disease activity despite standard therapy." 

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Docs4PatientCare's Dr. Hal Scherz has a new column at Townhall.com discussing whether medical care is a right or a responsibility. Dr. Scherz writes: 

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Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.  

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