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There was an interesting editorial written by Rita Redberg MD yesterday in the Archives of Internal Medicine about President Barack Obama’ latest physical. Sure, we all think that the Commander-in-Chief should pull out the stops to make sure he is healthy, but should we doctors condone his use of expensive technologies that have not [...]
Last week I wrote about the situation of the Grady dialysis clinic which the Grady Board voted to close last week. This means certain death for patients treated there without insurance as the private dialysis clinics won’t treat the patients, and emergency rooms will only treat them if they are within two days of death [...]
Our friend Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) came out with the bill that we had long been anticipating that Judas traitor and bed partner of healthcare industry “stakeholders” would come out with, namely dumping public option healthcare insurance and eliminating the chance that the government could negotiate prices of prescription medications. His plan calls for an [...]
Today I attended a protest going on at Grady Hospital over dropping dialysis for non-US citizens and then we attended the open board meeting at Grady Hospital. You can get some background by reading ““Grady Hospital Tells Dialysis Patients to Leave or Die” in which I explain how Grady sent letters a couple of [...]
After writing about the egregious goings on at Grady Hospital, which provides healthcare for the poor and indigent in Atlanta, GA, where they proposed denying dialysis patients to non-US citizens as a way to cut costs (which is a death sentence) (see “Grady Hospital Tells Non-US Dialysis Patients to Leave or Die“), I [...]
Grady Hospital, the public hospital here in Atlanta GA that provides care for the indigent sick, has been having financial troubles in recent years with multimillion deficits. Now based on the recommendations of an outside consulting firm they have proposed saving money by denying dialysis treatments to Non-citizens. For those who are not familiar with [...]
Well I felt a LEETLE bit guilty for photo-shopping the faces of the heads of the major healthcare lobbying groups onto the bodies of animals, after the son of one of these personages commented on the post, basically saying that I had no proof that the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AMTA) was against the public option [...]
via Henry Kahn MD of Atlanta, GA
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Today’s NYTimes carries letters from 6 doctors expressing their deep
criticism of the foot dragging on plans for a major overhaul in health
care financing.
The last letter refers to the Times Op-Ed piece on the same subject
appearing yesterday (11 [...]
President Barack Obama adressed the American Medican Association (AMA) today and stated that he was not gonna try and split up doctors from their patients or cut off their insurance plans if they liked them. You can read the entire transcript of his speech here. Obama is argued that people must beware of “scare tactics and fear-mongering” that have killed healthcare reform in the past
The lobby for hospitals, the American Hospital Association (AHA) headed by Richard Umbdenstock, contacted heads of hospitals across the land and urged them to “push back” against President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform. Obama decided that he could come up with part of the one trillion dollars he will need over the next decade to pay for healthcare for all by cutting payments to hospitals by 200 billion dollars.
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