The question regarding who is qualified to administer care is complex and is referred to as the "scope of practice". There are many integral contributors to the healthcare team. There are nurses and nurse practitioners (nurses with additional education and training), nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives, physician assistants, optometrists, chiropractors, psychologists, pharmacists, and the list goes on. These individuals play an important role in delivering healthcare to individuals every day but there remains one unalterable fact-they are not physicians. But, they would like to do the same things as physicians and their specialty societies have spent considerable time, effort and money trying to create the narrative that the care that they provide is equivalent to that which a physician administers. Generally speaking, that is just not the case.
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Is Your Doctor Really A Doctor? TownHall.com
Monday, March 25, 2013
The New Obamacare Insurance Is Looking More Like Medicaid, Forbes.com
Saturday, March 02, 2013
Did The Election Save Obamacare? NCPA.org
Monday, November 12, 2012
The morning after Tuesday’s vote, there is one thing every commentator agreed on. The election of Barack Obama guaranteed that his signature piece of legislation — health reform — can now go forward. Republicans are powerless to stop it.
Yet there is something all these commentators are overlooking. There are six major flaws in ObamaCare. They are so serious that the Democrats are going to have to perform major surgery on the legislation in the next few years, even if all the Republicans do is stand by and twiddle their thumbs.
Here is a brief overview.
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Yet there is something all these commentators are overlooking. There are six major flaws in ObamaCare. They are so serious that the Democrats are going to have to perform major surgery on the legislation in the next few years, even if all the Republicans do is stand by and twiddle their thumbs.
Here is a brief overview.
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Save American Medicine And Save Your Own Life, American Thinker
Thursday, August 02, 2012
D4PC Ophthamologist Dr. Zane Pollard details his career experience with government medical payers and how he believes the new healthcare law will cause a devastating deterioration to an already bad system.
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This Is Your Life Under Obamacare, Marc Siegel, MD
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
FOX News medical correspndent and practicing internist, Marc Siegel, MD, is a master of explaining things in simple, plain, matter of fact terms. Even as a practicing physician, I find myself watching his broadcasts for their informative, practical content. In this post-SCOTUS opinion, Dr. Siegel provides a glimpse into the future of patient care under the new healthcare law. As we have been predicting for 3 years, expect your insurance costs to skyrocket while quality and service plummet. Dr. Siegel expects he will remain in practice for the long-haul despite the government-imposed obstacles he will need to navigate, however, he predicts many of the nation's doctors may not be so determined to remain involved in patient care. Unfortunately, our patients are the ones hurt most by this healthcare takeover.
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Top 5 Reasons ObamaCare is Bad for Doctors
Monday, June 25, 2012
Massachusetts Health Reform Moves to Price Controls, Will ObamaCare Be Next
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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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Government-Funded Healthcare is Hazardous to Your Health
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
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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It's Not Just The Mandates: Obamacare's Other Infringements, PJ Media
Friday, March 30, 2012
“Unexpected” cost overruns are nothing new for government programs. When Medicare was passed in 1965, it was predicted the program would "only" cost $12 billion by 1990 (it actually cost a whopping $110 billion per year by 1990, nearly 10 times more than predicted).
The rapidly rising costs of ObamaCare will likely far outpace the amount by which Medicare exceeded its original cost estimates. But the soaring economic costs of ObamaCare will pale in comparison to the escalating losses of freedom.
The infringement of personal freedom receiving the most attention lately has been the “individual mandate” which requires Americans to purchase health insurance. This issue is at the heart of the current legal challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court. Lost in the debate, however, is the fact that ObamaCare also poses numerous other mandates, controls and burdens on patients, their doctors and employers. Read more about these burdens in an article from D4PC's Dr. Paul Hsieh, here.
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The rapidly rising costs of ObamaCare will likely far outpace the amount by which Medicare exceeded its original cost estimates. But the soaring economic costs of ObamaCare will pale in comparison to the escalating losses of freedom.
The infringement of personal freedom receiving the most attention lately has been the “individual mandate” which requires Americans to purchase health insurance. This issue is at the heart of the current legal challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court. Lost in the debate, however, is the fact that ObamaCare also poses numerous other mandates, controls and burdens on patients, their doctors and employers. Read more about these burdens in an article from D4PC's Dr. Paul Hsieh, here.
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The Truth About RomneyCare
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Dr. Paul Hsieh, a member of D4PC's Colorado chapter, has written an analysis of RomneyCare and how the law includes a series of price controls. Admittedly, Hsieh writes, these price controls may not have been evident when RomneyCare first took effect but over time their impact demonstrates RomneyCare has resulted in price controls.
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Sally Pipes: Don't Blame Doctors for High Health Care Costs
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
As D4PC previously posted, a new study has recently been released that reaches the erroneous conclusion that American doctors are overpaid compared to their counterparts in several foreign countries. D4PC noted that the American medical profession must offer salaries that compare with other high-skill, high-education professions in the U.S. in order to attract the best and brightest to the profession.
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Boston Scientific to Shed Another 1,400 Jobs
Monday, August 01, 2011
The Boston Globe reports that Boston Scientific is set to reduce its workforce by 1,200 to 1,400 jobs. ObamaCare imposes taxes on medical device makers which could be impacting this latest move. According to the Globe, Boston Scientific experienced a "setback" when "the Food and Drug Administration said it was investigating whether plastic mesh made by Boston Scientific and other companies should be banned for a procedure to treat a gynecological condition called pelvic organ prolapse."
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Challenging the Medicaid Payment Orthodoxy
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
In a new blog posting entitled, "Everything We are Doing in Health Policy May be Completely Wrong," John Goodman challenges the traditional orthodoxy of the health care payment system, particularly with respect to Medicaid. The stepping off point for his comments is a new paper that concluded that the time cost to obtain a prescription had proven to be a greater barrier to care for certain Medicaid patients than even a small increase in their co-pay.
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The High Price for Massachusetts Health Care Reform
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
A new report from the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University reaches several conclusions about the 2006 Massachusetts health care law (commonly referred to as "RomneyCare" after former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney). President Obama has stated on several occasions that RomneyCare served as the model for his own health care initiative, PPACA (or "ObamaCare"). In this regard, the costs and consequences of RomneyCare serve as an earlier warning signal of what doctors, patients, employers and taxpayers can expect nationwide as a result of ObamaCare.
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Putting IPAB in Perspective
Monday, July 11, 2011
Over the weekend, Chris Jacobs writes on the Daily Caller about IPAB, asking "Who am I to decide how my own health care should be handled?" His tongue-in-cheek commentary reveals how supporters of PPACA hope Americans will begin to react to health care decisions in the wake of ObamaCare. That is to say, supporters of ObamaCare hope the American people will surrender their freedoms and power to make the health care decisions that are in their own best interest and completely defer those decisions to technocrats.
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