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Want real health reform that is in the interest of you and your family? Don't make the same mistake that Washington did. In formulating ObamaCare, the politicians listened to lobbyists, policy wonks, academics, health theorists, regulators, and occasionally to each other. But they failed to listen to the people who actually care for patients: Doctors.  

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The ACA fails to fix the basic problems that were promised if passed- high costs and access to care. It actually exacerbates these problems. There is little disagreement that America’s health care “system” was in need of reform, however, many of the “solutions” embedded in the ACA are concepts that are untested or have failed historically and in recent CMS demonstration projects.

Governor Romney can distance himself from President Obama on healthcare by developing a health system reform platform that relies on trust of the American consumers and their physicians, instead of erecting artificial barriers and obstacles that further erode the physician-patient relationship. A leader like Governor Romney with a lifetime of business experience is poised to collaborate with the working physicians of America to set a more hopeful and constructive healthcare course for the future. 

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Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal comments on the biggest tragedy of the Affordable Care Act and the one that Docs4PatientCare has been claiming all along; the destruction of the sacred doctor-patient relationship and ultimately, the private practice of medicine.  

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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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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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There have been two noteworthy developments related to healthcare litigation over the past few days. 

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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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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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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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The American Thinker has a new article written by Scott Kirwin that deconstructs a recent Health Affairs study (written by Sherry Glied and Miriam Laugesen) that compared physician pay in the United States to that of doctors in other countries.  In short, the study reaches the conclusion that doctors are "overpaid." Kirwin notes that the study was written in part by Sherry Gilead who is currently working in the Obama Administration.  

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The AMA declares that its core mission is to “help doctors help patients.” But ObamaCare undermines that pursuit by making life harder for physicians and driving down the quality of care available to patients. 

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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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On it's one year anniversary, Drs. Fodeman and Gratzer highlight some of the negative consequences of the PPACA, especially diminished professional autonomy for doctors and patients' healthcare freedom of choice. 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/22/obamacare-one-year-later-98975456/ 

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