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At University of Miami, Faculty Without Confidence in their Hired Managers Afraid to Identify Themselves
The University of Miami has provided some vivid examples of the contrast between the power and privileges of the leaders of large health care organizations and the subservient role of faculty and staff. Background Back in 2006, we noted that while the University of Miami was paying its janitorial support staff less than seven dollars an hour, and supplying them with no health insurance, its President, Donna Shalala, was living in a 9000 square foot official mansion, with staff hired to make her bed.  While Ms Shalala did not seem very perturbed about the living conditions of the lowliest University staffers, as a...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: executive life style mission-hostile management medical schools Donna Shalala free speech University of Miami anechoic effect Source Type: blogs

The Morning Flap: February 22, 2013
Sequestration from Wall Street Journal These are my news headlines for February 21st through February 22nd: With Axelrod At NBC News, The Marriage Of Media And Politics Becomes Complete – What’s more, Team Obama has declared it has no intention of dismantling its campaign apparatus post re-election. Put Axelrod in the catbird seat at a news outlet and the “narrative” continues. Combine that with Team Obama’s masterful manipulation of journalists, its command of social media, and an ugly picture emerges of a press indistinguishable from the political establishment.This has happened in banana r...
Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog - February 22, 2013 Category: Dentists Authors: Flap Tags: Pinboard Links The Morning Flap Charles Krauthammer David Axelrod Delicious Links Democrats Gallup GOP Harry Reid Healthcare immigration Karl Rove Media Medicare MSM NBC Nevada Obamacare Online Politics Peggy Noonan Source Type: blogs

Charles Whitney MD Launching New Company and Program for Oral-Systemic Specialists
Doylestown, PA – August 12, 2014 – Charles Whitney, MD who has become well known in the dental industry as a physician who understands the oral-systemic connection, and for being a strong advocate for improved collaboration between dentistry and medicine, will be launching a new company, 3rd Era Dentistry and The Oral-Systemic Specialist Empowerment Program for Dental Hygienists at exhibit #1 at Under One Roof 2014.3rd Era Dentistry is a division of Dr. Whitney’s newly-formed parent company, 3rd Era Health Inc., which was formed to be a catalyst for integrating patient care across all healthcare disciplines in an eff...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - August 13, 2014 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs

Liberty Mutual: A Blow to Health Care Transparency
By CHARLES ORNSTEIN The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow this week to nascent efforts to track the quality and cost of health care, ruling that a 1974 law precludes states from requiring that every health care claim involving their residents be submitted to a massive database. The arguments were arcane, but the effect is clear: We’re a long way off from having a true picture of the country’s health care spending, especially differences in the way hospitals treat patients and doctors practice medicine. It also means that, for the time being at least, we’ll remain heavily reliant on data being released by Medicare, the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: Featured THCBist Charles Ornstein Source Type: blogs

The Return of the Angry Granny State
By CHARLES SILVER Texas should call itself The Granny State. That’s because it’s a nanny state in which the public officials who run the place have the values of a tea-totaling, Bible-thumping biddy who knows how God wants everyone to live and can’t resist telling them. No buying liquor on Sundays when people are supposed to be at church. No gambling ever. No whacky-weed for medicinal uses or recreation, even in the privacy of one’s home. No gay marriage, preferably no gays, and no transgender folk deciding which restrooms to use. And, of course, no sex, sex education, birth control, or abortions. Women should hav...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Charles Silver Malpractice Texas Trump Source Type: blogs

Misdiagnosis: Obamacare Tried to Fix the Wrong Things and Prescribed the Wrong Treatments
By CHARLES SILVER and DAVID A.HYMAN Today THCB is happy to publish a piece reflecting the learnings from Charles Silver and David Hyman’s forthcoming book Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care, shortly to be published by the libertarian leaning Cato Institute. In subsequent weeks we’ll feature commentary from the right (Michael Cannon) and from the left (Andy Slavitt) about the book and its proposals. For now please give your views in the comments–Matthew Holt There are many reasons why the United States is “the most expensive place in the world to get sick.” In Part 1 of Overcharg...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Economics OP-ED Cato Institute Charles Silver David A. Hyman Obamacare Overcharged Source Type: blogs

How Many of Obamacare’s New Enrollees Were Uninsured Last Year? Why It Doesn’t Matter
Charles Gaba, the enrollment guru who has been tracking Obamacare sign-ups since October, now estimates that by April 15, some 17 million Americans will have purchased their own insurance policies either in the Obamacare Exchanges (8 million) or off-Exchange (9 million) But how many of them were uninsured and how many were simply replacing policies that Obamacare had forced insurers to cancel?  This is the question conservatives ask.  After all they argue, if most of these folks already had coverage, we have just wasted a great deal of time and money moving them from a policy they chose to one that President Obama prefer...
Source: Health Beat - April 7, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: Affordable Care Act Charles Gaba enrolling in Obamacare how many were uninsured underinsured Source Type: blogs

Medical Licensing in the States: Some Room for Agreement-and Reform
Charles Hughes Even before Obamacare, many states faced the prospect of a doctor shortage due to an aging population and a limited supply of physicians. Obamacare will exacerbate this shortage by expanding insurance coverage to some degree, which will further increase the demand for care. One study projects that this increased demand will require between 4,300 and 7,000 more physicians by 2019. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that state medical boards across the country “have drafted a model law that would make it much easier for doctors licensed in one state to treat patients in other states, whether in ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 1, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Medical Licensing in the States: Some Room for Agreement—and Reform
Charles Hughes Even before Obamacare, many states faced the prospect of a doctor shortage due to an aging population and a limited supply of physicians. Obamacare will exacerbate this shortage by expanding insurance coverage to some degree, which will further increase the demand for care. One study projects that this increased demand will require between 4,300 and 7,000 more physicians by 2019. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that state medical boards across the country “have drafted a model law that would make it much easier for doctors licensed in one state to treat patients in other states, whether in ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 1, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Obamacare Enrollment 2015: How Many People Will Sign Up Next Year? (Public Support for Obamacare Is About to Turn a Corner) Part 1
Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, some 10 million previously uninsured adults gained coverage during the open enrollment period that began on October 1, 2013. Last month, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the share of Americans who are “going naked” has plummeted from 21 percent in September of 2013 to 16.3 percent in April of this year. Even though open enrollment officially ended on March 31, 2014, people are continuing to sign up. Anyone who experiences a major life change (getting divorced, losing a job, having a baby) can still purchase insurance on the Exchanges this summer. Others are dropping o...
Source: Health Beat - August 26, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: Charles Gaba and attrition enrollment and word-of-mouth Jeffrey Young and trouble sign up as many uninsured Jeffrey Young and Obamacare and 2015 Medicaid expansion Mikey Dickerson Obamacare and attrition Obamacare and customer satisfaction Source Type: blogs

Administration Drastically Lowers the Bar for Second Year of Enrollment
Charles Hughes Broken promises and lowered expectations littered the first year of the Affordable Care Act. When the law was being debated, Obama promised the law would cut health care premiums for a typical family by $2,500. Instead, premiums everywhere continued to rise, in some places they skyrocketed. Supporters claimed the law would reduce the deficit, citing a score from the Congressional Budget Office. More recent calculations with a full ten years of implementation show that it will increase budget deficits. The now infamous “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it” pledge, which Politifact dubbed i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 12, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Under Proposed Rules, Government Could Choose Insurance Plans for Millions of People
Charles Hughes The administration is considering a rule change that would allow the government to automatically change some people’s exchange plans to a cheaper alternative. HHS recently proposed regulations that would let exchanges offer alternative default options for enrollees. Under current law, most enrollees who did not revisit the exchange website are automatically re-enrolled in their plans (a few states do not allow automatic renewal). The new proposed rules would let exchange enrollees choose whether their default option would be to automatically renew the same plan or to let the government switch them into a ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 1, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Government Sends Wrong Tax Form to Nearly One Million Obamacare Enrollees
Charles Hughes Fresh off another victory lap last week, Obamacare supporters awoke last Friday to the news that the government had given nearly one million exchange enrollees incorrect tax forms that could significantly affect their tax returns. 800,000 enrollees in the federal exchange and roughly 100,000 in California were given the wrong forms, called 1095-As, which provide a monthly account of the premium subsidies exchange enrollees receive. The government uses that information to determine that the subsidy amounts are correct (although a pending Supreme Court case raises questions about the legality of any subsidies...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 23, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Fewer Choices and Higher Premiums in the Affordable Care Act ’s Exchanges
People shopping around on the insurance exchanges when the Affordable Care Act ’s Open Enrollment period begins next week will find that the choices they have are limited and that insurance premiums have gone up significantly.A new brief from the Department of Health and Human Services reports an average increase of 22 percent for benchmark plans, and consumers in some states will face hikes as high as 116 percent in Arizona.  The high profile exits of Aetna and UnitedHealth were covered at the time, but the report gives new insights into the aggregate effects of smaller exits and discontinuations as well. In the states...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 27, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Why Bad News Is Not Always Bad
Last month, the cover of BusinessWeek featured an article, How Big Pharma Uses Charity Programs to Cover for Drug Price Hikes, focused on co-pay charities for Medicare patients. I of course had heard about such co-pay charities before, and even had the opportunity to meet with a representative of one a few years ago, but frankly I had no idea what they did. So when the article came out, outlining the "evils" of this practice, it caught my attention. By catching my attention, it actually saved my elderly parents significant amounts of money. My father and mother are both retired, living on a small pension and Social Secur...
Source: Policy and Medicine - August 4, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs