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The Senate passed a bill which would fund the 21% increase of physician Medicare reimbursement on Friday, but House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi rejected the bill, making it unlikely to pass. Republicans have wanted the so-called `doc fix` to be funded through cutting other spending. Friday`s bill took this approach. However, Pelosi called it a `great disappointment` and saw `no reason to pass` it. The previous `doc fix` bill ran out June 1st, but the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has held off paying doctors the lower amount. On Friday, CMS ordered that the payments be made at...

Seeking independent practicesNurse practitioners, midwives ask end to pacts with doctors By CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY, Staff writer First published: Saturday, June 12, 2010 ALBANY - Midwives and nurse practitioners in New York are trying to break free of formal ties to physicians. Both groups of have bills before legislators that would remove the legal requirement that they have written practice agreements with a doctor. "The piece of paper doesn't mean anything because we are going to collaborate with the person who is the most appropriate (for the medical situation)," said Laura Sheperis, president of the New York State Association of...

Hey everyone! I have a brief breakdown of what I think is good and bad in the Healthcare legislation that Obama signed into law at the blog that I contribte to: The Poltical Panorama. Give it a once-over and let me know your thoughts. I'm a moderate Republican that has campaigned and worked for multiple Republican candidates in Missouri. We are a growing political blog and would encourage you to check us out!

The latest weekly Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey on the recently passed national health care bill finds that 60% of U.S. voters now want to see it repealed. That’s down three points from a week ago but is the second straight week to find support for repeal of the bill at 60% or above.

Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were Columbia University sociologists who founded, in 1966, the National Welfare Reform Organization, a “parent organization” of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). They advocated what became known as the “Cloward-Piven strategy,” which “seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.” This is an instructive prism through which to view the recent health care legislation.

This video is about the current health care situation from a Surgeons perspective. Some of the humor contains inside jokes, but the topics discussed go to the heart of what is wrong with Obamacare. Click the link above, sit back and enjoy. By the end hopefully you will have an increased understanding of at least one Surgeons view on the current health care environment.

Obama Administration Cuts NYC Anti-Terrorist Funding! Hey, why not? It’s not like terrorists ever target NYC. Good job, Mr. Prez! 10,000 Square Foot Islamic Center To Be Built at Ground Zero It’s true. You can’t make-up something this ridiculous. Obama Administration Wants to Cut Military Pay! Hey, why not? Those guys don’t do anything. CBO says Obamacare to Cost More Than Projected Duh, see above; cuts for NYC anti-terrorist funding and cuts for military pay. Turns out all those racist, rabble-rousers formerly known collectively as the American people were right to oppose the legislation. And now for our – Democrat...

Why is it OK to check auto insurance verification, now even health care insurance verification, but not verify whether one has the right to even be in this country?

The health care reform that Congress passed and Barack Obama signed into law has a provision that some say would force Congress immediately to have their health insurance terminated and get their coverage through an exchange (no requirement in bill that an exchange actually exists). They've gotten a ruling from their personnel dept that they don't have to do this from years even though the plain text of the law says something else. Is there a way to sue them to enforce the law as they wrote it? Who would have standing to bring the law suit? It would be...

A committee of Louisiana lawmakers has advanced a bill to the full House that seeks to stop federal health care reform from taking effect in the state. The proposed constitutional amendment states that "no law or rule shall compel any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system." "We think the people ought to decide if this is how they want to be governed," Louisiana Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine told the committee. "Basically the state is asserting it's sovereignty." The governor's office says the federal government is treading on state's rights.

Caller: I'm very frustrated about what happened they didn't listen to the people at all. I don't know if you happened to hear what Michelle Bachmann said about peacefully not complying with obamacare? I think that's going to be me. I have read the bill and I know about the provisions that will throw me in prison and really I don't care. I'll be more than happy to go to prison to fight for my freedom. Host: How do you see your freedom on the line here? Caller: They are taking our money by fiat. They are taking our money...

After 100 years of determined effort without result, Congress has finally delivered meaningful health care coverage to all Americans. The health care bill that passed the U.S. Senate with 60 votes on Christmas Eve was approved by a majority of the House of Representatives and signed into law last month by President Obama. For months, people throughout Louisiana have heard hysterical cries from some quarters that the bill is unconstitutional and that it should be repealed. These naysayers are using these scare tactics to distract attention from the many important provisions in the bill. Children will be covered, even when...

The government that mismanaged the H1N1 vaccine is stepping up to do an even worse job on ObamaCare. As a general pediatrician and medical practice owner, I have been surprised at our inability as a society to apply the lessons of the recent past to our current health care debate. Those who know me will recall that I was especially aggravated over the H1N1 debacle of late last year. Unlike seasonal flu vaccines, the entire H1N1 vaccine distribution process was taken over by the federal government in the form of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While the...

I’ve been seIf-employed as a health insurance broker / agent for the last 20 years. I have laid out my own vision for health care reform. Although most of my ideas are not original, I know I have not seen this entire spectrum of comprehensive reform promoted anywhere else. I’d like to share it with you, and would appreciate your opinions and feedback. It has taken 45 years of “entitlement mentality” to arrive at today’s “tipping point”. When it comes to “health care,” it is such a personal issue to each one of us. Even people with a good degree...

I’ve been seIf-employed as a health insurance broker / agent for the last 20 years. I have laid out my own vision for health care reform. Although most of my ideas are not original, I know I have not seen this entire spectrum of comprehensive reform promoted anywhere else. I’d like to share it with you, and would appreciate your opinions and feedback. It has taken 45 years of “entitlement mentality” to arrive at today’s “tipping point”. When it comes to “health care,” it is such a personal issue to each one of us. Even people with a good degree...

I would challenge anyone to produce a death certificate stating that the cause of death was "uninsured." This health care bill is not about health insurance or health care, as neither were improved, but, two weeks after the bill was signed into law, the more defective aspects of each industry have been amplified. If this bill was a legitimate fix for health care via insurance, then the ensuing macabre conclusions hold true about the Democratic Party.

Although Obamacare was pushed through by the Democrats, Senator Scott Brown continues to work against it in what he describes as a "broken Washington."

Jack Cashill: The early Soviets coined the word “agitprop” as a blend between the Russian agitatsiya (agitation) and “propaganda.” Although the Soviet Union may have passed away, its communication techniques are alive and well, nowhere more demonstrably than in the media firestorm ignited on March 20 at the nation’s Capitol.

Tucson, Arizona. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) became the first medical society to sue to overturn the newly enacted health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). AAPS sued Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (AAPS v. Sebelius et al.). “If the PPACA goes unchallenged, then it spells the end of freedom in medicine as we know it,” observed Jane Orient, M.D., the Executive Director of AAPS. “Courts should not allow this massive intrusion into the practice of medicine and the rights of patients.” “There will be a dire...

There are many frightening aspects of the new healthcare law hidden around every corner of its legislative labyrinth, camouflaged behind dense impenetrable briars of legalese. But, like the purloined letter of literature, there plenty of the law’s detestable provisions hiding in plain sight. Any document that runs over 2,000 pages (unless it is a young adult book about angst-ridden vampires) discourages even the most cursory of readings. Even skimming such a tome would likely precipitate carpal tunnel syndrome. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law last week by President Obama is no exception. As House Minority Leader...