Lance's health-care stance jeopardizing lives - Dailyrecord.com

Lance's health-care stance jeopardizing livesDailyrecord.comIt's important to step back and understand what this word “rationing” currently means for people seeking healthcare. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, to “ration” is “to restrict to limited allotments.” Uninsured Americans (51 million in ...and more »

Let's Help Massachusetts Control Health Care Costs - Forbes

Let's Help Massachusetts Control Health Care CostsForbesTheir goal is for health care spending to grow less rapidly than the gross state product. To me, this means rationing, which regular readers know I am all for. However, the summary states that nothing in this legislation rations peoples' access to care ...and more »

High cost doesn't equal better care - Florida Times-Union

High cost doesn't equal better careFlorida Times-UnionSource: From "The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health Care System," by Nortin Hadler, physician, professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. - "Conservative ideas about skin in the game are only partly ...and more »

A modest proposal: To solve health spending crisis, tax cats - msnbc.com (blog)

A modest proposal: To solve health spending crisis, tax catsmsnbc.com (blog)By Art Caplan, Ph.D. Lots of Americans buy the argument that we should ration health care according to lifestyle. So do many employers who are trying to charge their obese employees more for health insurance. But if we are going to penalizing the ...and more »

Doctors joining effort to control health care costs - Yuma Sun

Doctors joining effort to control health care costsYuma SunWhile the claims about rationing were exaggerated by the health plan opponents, the reality is that in order to control the soaring cost of health care, decisions do have to be made about which treatments and procedures are more useful and are more ...

Health Care Reform Update -- May 14, 2012 - JD Supra (press release)

Health Care Reform Update -- May 14, 2012JD Supra (press release)On May 11th HHS released a final rule requiring health insurance issuers who meet or exceed medical-loss ration (MLR) requirements must send an annual notice to enrollees informing them of this fact. Previous MLR rules had required only insurers who ...and more »

'I want to reach out to remote villages' - The Hindu

The Hindu'I want to reach out to remote villages'The HinduUndeterred by the sensational abduction, the 2006-batch IAS officer is determined to carry forward his mission of steering Sukma district towards achieving self-sufficiency on various fronts, including agriculture, food security and health care.and more »

OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Healthcare politics get messy - The Hill (blog)

OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Healthcare politics get messyThe Hill (blog)And there are a few health policy gems in the mix, including, “Hey girl, Don't worry. IPAB might ration our healthcare. But it will never ration our love.” Pelosi's office tried to ride the publicity Thursday with a few mockups of its own, such as, ...and more »

NEJM Pushes Medical Discrimination–Again - First Things (blog)

First Things (blog)NEJM Pushes Medical Discrimination–AgainFirst Things (blog)Its editors really, really want health care rationing. After all, a rationing regimen gives the posse with which they ride a lot of power since technocratic regimes need “experts” to impose societal decisions. It promotes an ideology that seeks ...

Berwick Is Medical, Dental Schools' Class Day Speaker - Harvard Magazine

Berwick Is Medical, Dental Schools' Class Day SpeakerHarvard MagazineBerwick has championed the interests of patients and consumers while simultaneously speaking out on the need to ration healthcare and cap spending. A pediatrician by training, Berwick resigned from the Obama administration in November 2011—a month ...and more »

Why We Must Ration Health Care

A utilitarian philosopher's argument for placing a dollar value on human life.

Let's Help Massachusetts Control Health Care Costs

As we know, health care spending in this country is out of control.  Even Utah, the state that has the lowest cost for health care at $5,031 per person per year, is more expensive than health care in most OECD countries.  Much of the unnecessary cost is overhead and wasted health services. It will take a significant change in our health care system to fix this problem - instituting a single ...

A modest proposal: To solve health spending crisis, tax cats

Lots of Americans buy the argument that we should ration health care according to lifestyle. So do many employers who are trying to charge their obese employees more for health insurance.

Johnson discusses health care during swing through valley

CALCUTTA-"Health care is on everybody's minds," Rep. Bill Johnson said during a visit to the Therapy Center at the Calcutta YMCA on Tuesday afternoon. It was obviously on Johnson's mind during an informal session when he spoke with staff members at the center.

Guinta a threat to privacy of women's health care

Our household received another dinner-time telephone call this week — another tele-town hall brought to you by our congressman, Frank Guinta. Tele-town halls seems to have become a favorite method for "interacting" with his constituents — by...

Romney’s ‘Gross’ Exaggeration on ‘Obamacare’

Mitt Romney falsely claims government will “constitute … almost 50 percent” of the U.S. economy when the new federal health care law takes full effect. But Romney gets to 50 percent by erroneously counting all health care spending — private and public — as “effectively under government control once Obamacare … More >>

Right Wing Revolts Against GOP Leadership Plans To Keep Popular Parts Of Obamacare

Remember the whole ?repeal and replace? mantra pushed by the GOP leadership in its effort to undo Obamacare? The red "GOP" logo used by the party for its website (Photo credit: Wikipedia) While the ?repeal? may still appeal? the plan to ?replace? is running into some serious trouble as ultra-conservatives vociferously object

RediLearning Launches 'yourCEstore.com' To Provide Live And On-Demand CE Webcasts For Healthcare Professionals

BOCA RATION, Fla., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RediLearning Corp. announces it has launched a new online resource for Senior Care personnel at its website, http://www.yourcestore.com , where visitors can ...

Seniors beware of health care law’s advisory board

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Mitt Romney Makes 'Gross' Exaggeration On Obamacare

Mitt Romney falsely claims government will "constitute … almost 50 percent" of the U.S. economy when the new federal health care law takes full effect.

@reikatalle The black and white of government health care that will have to ration at some point regardless how much you tax the rich.

@reikatalle The black and white of government health care that will have to ration at some point regardless how much you tax the rich.

How the Obama Health Care Plan will Ration Your Family’s Health Care | The View from My Cloud http://t.co/p9Xo8Bre

How the Obama Health Care Plan will Ration Your Family’s Health Care | The View from My Cloud http://t.co/p9Xo8Bre