How about a 21% pay cut!

Without additional action, the 21 percent pay cut will now take place on April 1. The American Medical Association (AMA) has another suggestions, but it is far from clear that the AMA is a friend to the practicing physician. The points that are clear is that the government isn’t going away in healthcare, and physicians [...]

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Where To Go For Healthcare Information? Insurance Companies.

What insurance companies have that the government does not is information. In today’s WSJ http://bit.ly/d2FHTo mentions that HHS Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius wants the industry to provide estimates of cost and utilization increases. This is a question the government can not answer on their own, yet is confident that they know how to manage healthcare insurance [...]

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The Missing Question in Health Care

What if health care “reform” makes things worse? Seems like a straight forward and honestly humble enough question; don’t you think it needs to be asked?

The problem in the financial crisis is that not enough peopled asked themselves (with the possible exception of Morgan Stanley), what if their assumptions are wrong?  What if we’re [...]

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Obama on the Health Care Bill

Obama’s apparent response to the nation for not wanting the current health-care bill? Go pound sand!  We’re going to do what we want because we know better ant you.

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Cash Only Medicine – The Future of Healthcare

Imagine that you do the same job year over year, and in each year you get paid less.  This is the condition in which most physicians find themselves.  It may be difficult for some to have sympathy  for physicians because many believe that they make lots of money, though some do.  Still, physicians spent most of their 20’s and some [...]

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