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UPDATE – Bad Week for Medicaid Expansion

Posted on September 12, 2016 by OCTS1

It was a bad week for Medicaid expansion. I’ll bring you up to date on that and the county in Arizona that was losing its only insurer, as well as the Obamacare innovation center I last mentioned on this webinar … Continue reading →

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VA – Welcome to Single-Payer Government Health Care

Posted on May 21, 2014 by OCTS4

Comment: The Financial Times reports our favorite government-run medicine–the Veteran’s Administration–has been keeping a sham set of books to make it look like they’re reducing wait-times, when in fact veterans are literally dying waiting in line, some without ever even … Continue reading →

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Seniors, Get Ready for Steep New Medicare Cuts

Posted on March 4, 2014 by OCTS4

Comment: Savings, Obamacare style. Obamacare’s only cost control is to reduce payments, which means seniors will get fewer services. In other words, this is the government-controlled rationing opponents warned you about. (hat tip to T.D., for this item) “The U.S. … Continue reading →

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California Doctors Rejecting Obamacare Patients

Posted on February 25, 2014 by OCTS4

Comment: Over-priced insurance is not healthcare. “A Sonora mechanic is in so much pain that he can barely walk, but he can’t seem to find a doctor to fix his ailing back after he and his wife switched their insurance … Continue reading →

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Swedes buy health insurance to skirt socialized system

Posted on February 4, 2014 by OCTS4

“One in ten Swedes now has private health insurance, often through their employers, with some recipients stating it makes business sense to be seen quickly rather than languish in national health care queues.” [...]“It’s quicker to get a colleague back … Continue reading →

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Top Democrat Howard Dean Says IPAB Continues 40-Year Record of Failure, Will Never Control Costs

Posted on August 2, 2013 by OCTS3

[…] “One major problem is the so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board. The IPAB is essentially a health-care rationing body. By setting doctor reimbursement rates for Medicare and determining which procedures and drugs will be covered and at what price, the … Continue reading →

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Report from the Front Lines: Storm Clouds Approaching

Posted on January 25, 2013 by OCTS3

I am not a not a Healthcare Policy analyst or a politician; I am a surgeon. I went to medical school because I thought it would be wonderful to fix patients. In the thirty-one years of education that it took … Continue reading →

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New York to Ration Doctor Visits

Posted on October 8, 2012 by OCTS1

“As part of its “benchmark” health care plan to satisfy ObamaCare’s requirement of the establishment of Essential Health Benefits (EHB’s) in each state, the state of New York has requested that annual doctor visit limits be substituted for lifetime and … Continue reading →

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