MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'for profit'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:21:58 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5050524&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FkDOyFnvKS7k%2F On Tuesday, Cato held a forum on the big profits made by putatively “nonprofit” colleges, the subject of a new Cato Policy Analysis. Not surprisingly, Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, objected to the use of the term “profits” to categorize the excess money colleges take in through undergraduate students, but all the panelists seemed to agree that there is both significant waste in higher ed, and that the Capitol Hill obsession with unabashedly for-profit institutions misses big cracks all over the Ivory Tower. Unfortunately, of course, many of you couldn’t join us on Tuesday. Thankfully, you can now take in the entire bit of illuminating infotainment right here: On a related note, give George Leef&#821... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5050524 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:30:18 +0100 5050524 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4953221&cid=t_147367_130_f&fid=34938&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEvidenceInMotion%2F%7E3%2FLGr2luJ66GQ%2Fnbc-investigation-reveals-truth-about-popts-your-comments-needed-now.html     POPTS are Destroying Independent #PhysicalTherapy Practices in California and Across the Nation. June 17th, 2011 - KNBC Los Angeles's Frank Snepp, investigative reporter exposes POPTS clinics in his story published Friday in the late afternoon.  Click here to view it and make sure you comment He mentions some of the important facts and conflicts of interest: 1. Nationwide data from six months in 2002 showed that 91 percent of physical therapy billed by physicians and allowed by Medicare resulted in 136 million in improper payments, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. 2. As the law states today, it is a violation for physical therapists to work for a physician-owned medical corporation in CA. 3. The Department of Consumer Affairs says in a written st... MyPhysicalTherapySpace.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4953221 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:47:02 +0100 4953221 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4921396&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FKyovaxBLj6s%2F By Neal McCluskeyOver at the New America Foundation’s “Higher Ed Watch” blog, Stephen Burd purports to know “the truth behind Senate Republican’s boycott of the Harkin hearing.” And what is that truth? Republicans are trying to “discredit an investigation that has revealed just how much damage their efforts to deregulate the industry over the past decade have caused both students and taxpayers.” Really? Okay, it is possible that Republicans are trying to save themselves some sort of blame or embarrasment — I can’t read their minds — but if so they’ve done a terrible job. Every time Harkin holds one of his hearings the bulk of the media coverage treats it like it has revealed shocking abuse by the entire for-profit se... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4921396 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:54:55 +0100 4921396 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4911453&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FnTYzEENXook%2F By Neal McCluskey Yesterday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) held his fifth — and perhaps final – Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee show-hearing lambasting for-profit colleges. As usual, it was a decidedly one-sided affair, with no profit-defenders apparently invited to testify, and Republican committee members boycotting. Perhaps the only interesting thing that occurred was Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), who has never given any indication he doesn’t support Harkin’s obsessive whale hunt, saying the proceedings could have benefitted from more than one point of view. According to MarketWatch, Franken lamented that “it would have been nice to have someone here to represent the for-profit schools.” Now, he might have only wanted a for-profit rep there to recei... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4911453 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:16:42 +0100 4911453 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893415&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FyrejsaU4zQo%2F By Neal McCluskeyThe hotly anticipated — and dreaded — “gainful employment” regulations aimed at for-profit colleges were released this morning, and based on media reports the big news is that they are a little more lenient than originally expected. Most importantly, schools that fail to meet debt-to-income and debt-repayment requirements will not be cut off from federal student aid — the financial crack on which almost every college and university depends — until 2015. That’s the big news, at least as reported. But it isn’t the important story. The real story remains that the Obama administration, and at least the education leadership in the Senate, continues to divert the public’s eye towards for-profit schools when the entire hig... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893415 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:53:18 +0100 4893415 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4658364&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FhGS87WT_mVU%2F By Caleb O. BrownCivil asset forfeiture strikes at the heart of property rights. Authorities simply seize property property without all the messiness of convicting someone of a crime. It's blatantly unconstitutional and it shouldn't happen, but it does. What's worse, many state governments offer little to no information to the public about what they're doing with those ill-gotten gains. A new report and video from the Institute for Justice illustrates the case of Georgia quite well. The video was produced by IJ's multitalented Isaac Reese. IJ's Scott Bullock participated in a lively discussion of their "Policing for Profit" (PDF) report last April here at Cato. Civil Forfeiture vs. Truth and Justice is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4658364 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:19:27 +0100 4658364 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4540551&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FxRMdVAkb5aw%2F By Neal McCluskeyIn dribs and drabs the plot thickens in the quiet little saga surrounding the GAO's brutal and broken August report on for-profit colleges. The latest development is the near-silent transformation of the GAO office that produced the knee-capping report that was later quietly reissued with lots of new, for-profit-exonerating material. I say "near-silent transformation" because word about it somehow got to the Coalition for Educational Success, a career college advocacy group.  Yesterday, CES issued a press release on the matter, and this morning I contacted GAO's public affairs office about it. To the GAO's credit, their public affairs folks quickly sent me a copy of a memo announcing the end of the Forensic Audits and Special Investigations (FSI) team. Sadly, it... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4540551 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:29:48 +0100 4540551 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445784&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FUQqVge0yFQA%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonA new study of Sweden's nationwide private school choice program reveals that both non-profit and for-profit private schools outperform state-run schools. And, after the most comprehensive set of controls for confounding variables, they do so by an almost identical (and highly statistically significant) margin. Is there any reason, then, to prefer one form of private organization over the other? Yes. While non-profit private schools have tended to increase the size of their waiting lists in response to growing demand, their for-profit counterparts have done what all commercial enterprises would do in that circumstance: they've grown. For more insights on this crucial distinction, have a look at Peje Emilsson's presentation from our "Cloning Superman" event, which was br... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445784 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:15:48 +0100 4445784 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4428999&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FGWpaeNPTmQI%2F By Neal McCluskeyLast week, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Comittee, announced that on February 17 he will continue his obssessive attack on for-profit colleges, holding yet another hearing to determine just how evil profit-seekers are.  At least, that is what will presumably be discussed — the specific subject of the hearing is yet to be identified. But the committee actually tackling, say, rampant waste throughout higher education driven by federal student aid, or just giving for-profit schools an even-handed treatment, would be too huge a turnaround to contemplate. Despite there being no end in sight to Harkin’s seige, for-profit institutions aren’t just rolling over, and today they launched their latest ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4428999 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:06:56 +0100 4428999 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4343111&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTr91zD-Y0eU%2F By Neal McCluskeyWith the release of a new report analyzing a quietly amended Government Accountability Office study that’s been used to club for-profit colleges, fear of GAO bias has reached a fever pitch. Sadly, the GAO’s response to the report does anything but assuage that fear. To get a decent sense for the government abuse both surrounding, and possibly perpetrated by, the GAO study in question, it’s worth a quick rehash of events. Basically, the study was requested by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee who has been waging war against for-profit colleges on the suspicion that the sector is rife with fraud, waste, and abuse. To get data to support his suspicion, Harkin asked the GAO to con... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4343111 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:22:51 +0100 4343111 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4265675&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FUQTUzWCVuvo%2F By Neal McCluskeyToday, AEI’s Rick Hess and Andrew Kelly have a piece at Inside Higher Ed highlighting serious evidence of dirty-dealing in a highly influential Government Accountability Office report on for-profit colleges. Hess and Kelly’s piece is well worth a read and I’m glad they’re on the case. Unfortunately, theirs is about the only cry of alarm over apparent bias at the supposedly incorruptible GAO — potentially a huge story — I’ve seen since I wrote the following last week: Now, though much needs to be determined about why the myriad changes to the report were made, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to learn that people at the GAO have actually been in on the crusade to demonize proprietary colleges. I also, unfortunately, ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4265675 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:24:53 +0100 4265675 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4245285&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FpKb4J81JWAs%2F By Neal McCluskey I have no love of for-profit colleges and universities — they are as greedy at the public trough as any other higher ed sector — but it is becoming increasingly difficult to not get very angry about the treatment they’re receiving in Washington. Just one day after it was revealed that the GAO had substantially revised a report used back in August to smear proprietary colleges, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) — the driving force, along with the U.S. Department of Education, behind the war on profits — released a new report alleging that for-profit schools are ripping off G.I. Bill-using veterans.  At least, that’s what the media stories are suggesting. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to verify the actual content of the report... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4245285 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:45:31 +0100 4245285 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3914998&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fcharitable-hospitals-being-sold-to-for-profits-to-survive%2F2010.08.30 More than one-fifth of hospitals are government-owned, but states and counties are out of cash to keep them open. So, charitable hospitals are being sold to for-profit groups or facing closures. Rising costs and more uninsured patients run smack into falling Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement. When bonds come due, there’s little chance of states and counties paying them back. And the facilities are often standalones, and they can’t fall back on corporate backing. This year, 53 hospitals have been sold in 25 arrangements. While the deals often stipulate that care for the poor continues, no one is certain exactly how or even whether such services will continue. That said, other charitable hospitals are making big profits. What are they doing differently? First, they’re co... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3914998 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0100 3914998 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3831337&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F5b8u1HvciCA%2F By Neal McCluskeyFor the last few days, for-profit colleges and universities have been suffering an even worse hammering than usual, both in the media and their pocketbooks. The proximate cause: a GAO report released Wednesday that has been portrayed as revealing “systemic” and “pervasive” fraud — and otherwise just seamy behavior — by the for-profit sector. No doubt there is some bad stuff going on in proprietary postsecondary education. But the assault on for-profits reeks of political bullying of the unpopular kid — the kid who’s just different — as well as the never-ending Washington demonization of anyone who honestly pursues a profit. The waving of the bloody GAO report is case-in-point, and one need look no further than t... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3831337 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:41:12 +0100 3831337 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3652371&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F06%2Fguest-post-hospital-passing-that-low.html Health Care Renewal presents a guest blog by Steve Lucas, a retired businessman who formerly worked in real estate and construction who has a long standing interest in business ethics, and has long observed the health care scene.We have a verdict in the largest legal suit, $110M, ever brought before the court in Stark County, Ohio. The issue at hand has been the payment of fees by a nonprofit hospital (Aultman) through its for-profit insurance subsidiary (AultCare) to switch clients to this hospital's insurance plan. Aultman is the only in program hospital in our area.Confidentiality agreements have kept this practice in place for a total of 12 years, with knowledge of the arrangement only recently becoming public.First the back story: What is today Mercy Medical Center is owned ... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3652371 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:15:00 +0100 3652371 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3490620&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F4Zy1I-zW7m8%2F By David RittgersThe Institute for Justice has produced a study, Policing for Profit, which highlights the abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws. Law enforcement agencies are empowered across the nation to seize and keep property suspected of involvement in criminal activity. Unlike criminal  asset forfeiture, however, with civil forfeiture, a property owner need not be found guilty of a crime—or even charged—to permanently lose her cash, car, home or other property. Most state laws are written in such a way as to encourage police agents to pursue profit instead of seeking the neutral administration of justice. The report grades each state and the federal government on its forfeiture laws and other measures of abuse. The results are appalling: Six states earned an F and 29 states and t... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3490620 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:15:44 +0100 3490620 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865645&cid=t_147367_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FC8m3PqFAWjs%2F Matt Yglesias has a post up looking at the PISA scores, and he seems to imply that for-profit schooling has been tried and found wanting in Sweden and the U.S.: The big difference is that many Swedish charters are run by for-profit firms. We’ve had some experiments with that in the U.S. and it hasn’t worked very well. Nobody’s really found a great way of making consistent profits running K-12 schools in America. Of course even he notes that Sweden’s schools are highly regulated by the state. And in the U.S., the difficulty of succeeding in for-profit education just might have something to do with that government monopoly on k-12 education and the $560 billion or so in tax revenues that fund it. Maybe. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865645 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:17:50 +0100 2865645 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2017870&cid=t_147367_140_f&fid=35448&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseemedlikeagoodideathetime.com%2F2008%2F12%2F06%2Fdrug-dealers-busted-dont-even-spend-time-in-a-holding-cell%2F I’m glad I checked over at Philip’s first, so I didn’t make an ass out of myself by posting a long thing over this. Seroquel “off label” for depression and *gasp* knowing about serious side effects being kept quiet? Not AstraZeneca. Yeah, right. What gets me is, most of us already knew this stuff. Are the [...] (Source: bipolar chicks blogging) bipolar chicks blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2017870 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:04:55 +0100 2017870 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=874636&cid=t_147367_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F156993757%2F A Different Look at the MMR IssueScience writer David Bradley posts about measles and giving the MMR as three separate vaccines; readers find flaws. Special Ed, For ProfitShould a for-profit company run private special education schools? A Suggestion for Dr. WakefieldDAN! seeks “messages of support” for the doctor; Autism Vox asks him to write some messages, too. Eye Contact May Be OverratedWhy, or why not, or why maybe, autistic kids need to be taught to “look at me.” The Cure QuestionIs the notion of “curing autism” beside the point? Quirky, NOSTo diagnose or not to diagnose? Back to School with b5mediaCharlie goes back to school and I reflect on his learning struggles and strengths What Are We Treating With WhatOn the “off label” use of me... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=874636 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:17:12 +0100 874636 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=520609&cid=t_147367_133_f&fid=35100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhardwonwisdom.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fdiary-or-ability-to-predict-future.html I often use my posts as a "memory hole" for things I want to, but am unable to, keep in my head. Today, my post will be a diary of sorts, maybe even a horoscope for things I can see happening in the future....I am, hopefully, leaving my job at the school district to get one much closer to home. Not that I want to leave, I'm sure there is still more I could do at my TMD classroom, but I feel I have accomplished enough to feel good about leaving. I knew at the beginning of the year, with my personality, or lack there of, I might only last a year, so I made it a goal to get all my goals accomplished. And I learned more from my students, and learned more from my aides, than I ever could have imagined. It has been a year of tremendous growth.But something within me has always been drawn to a re... Hard Won Wisdom blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=520609 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:25:00 +0100 520609