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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Monday August 15, 2011

Monday, August 15, 2011

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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"Health Overhaul Is Dealt Setback", The Wall Street Journal

"A U.S. appeals court in Atlanta handed the Obama administration its biggest defeat to date in the battle over the health-care overhaul passed last year, ruling the law's mandate on Americans to carry health insurance was unconstitutional.
The 2-1 ruling directly conflicts with another appellate ruling in June, making it a near certainty that the Supreme Court will eventually step in and provide the final word".

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"An Epiphany On Direct-Pay Practices", Covert Rationing Blog

"To argue that direct-pay practices, or any innovation that would somehow restore both the doctor’s professional integrity and the patient’s rightful advocate is unethical is completely upside down. It is one of the few viable pathways toward restoring the foundational (but currently obsolete and officially repudiated) medical ethic of "always placing the patient first".

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"The Accountable Care Fiasco", The Wall Street Journal

"The Obama Administration is handing out waivers far and wide for its health-care bill, but behind the scenes the bureaucracy is grinding ahead writing new regulations. The latest example is the rule for Accountable Care Organizations that are supposed to be the crown jewel of cost-saving reform. One problem: The draft rule is so awful that even the models for it say they won't participate".

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"The Colorado Health Symposium's Debate Over Repealing and Replacing the ACA, HealthAffairs.org

"I argued that the focus instead should be on solutions that concentrate energy and resources on the uninsured and the most vulnerable in society. We could get much closer to universal coverage with properly structured subsidies that don’t disrupt the coverage that tens of millions of people have today." 

"I pointed out that the cost of uncompensated care is estimated at $43 billion a year, representing 1.7 percent of our $2.6 trillion in health spending—in my opinion, hardly a reason for such dramatic centralization of our health sector."

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"More Medicare Cuts", The Wall Street Journal

A 12 person Congressional "Super Committee" is being tasked with saving Medicare and the United States from financial collapse. Not feeling reassured or confident? Neither do we. Seniors and their physicians need to prepare for the imminent undesirable changes coming as a result of 46 years of failed gov't intervention in healthcare financing.

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Medicare Part : Proof That Free-Market Principles "Do" Work, Forbes.com

Obamacare supporters want us to believe that the only way to keep health care costs low and "fair" is for federal regulators to intervene and impose their will. Unfortunately for them, Medicare Part D is proving this isn't the case. While health costs skyrocket in every other sector of our health care system, this one part is actually showing a steady decline because it gives seniors the freedom to choose more expensive programs if they prefer, as long as they cover the difference themselves. It also contains a cost-controlling mechanism known as the "donut hole," through which recipients are required to pay for all drug costs above a certain minimum level and below a ceiling, which makes them sensitive to prices while protecting them from catastrophic costs. Unfortunately, Obamacare destroys these free market principles by imposing mandates, taxes and other forms of government control that have proven not to work.

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