All Posts Tagged With: "managed care"
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Larry Van Heerden is the author of website Free Market Medicine (www.MarketMed.org). The health-care system in the United States is beset by problems. After years of feeling shortchanged by managed care, doctors and hospitals are demanding and getting greater compensation; the elderly (under Medicare) have no prescription coverage; and many people find health insurance of [...]
1Aug2002 | Larry Van Heerden | 1 comment | ContinuedBlame Congress for HMOs
Twila Brase, R.N., P.H.N., is president of the Citizens’ Council on Health Care in St. Paul, Minnesota (www.cchc-mn.org). Only 27 years ago, congressional Republicans and Democrats agreed that American patients should gently but firmly be forced into managed care. That patients do not know this fact is evidenced by public outrage directed at health maintenance [...]
1Feb2001 | Twila Brase | 3 comments | ContinuedWhy Medicine Is Slowly Dying in America
Michael Hurd (www.drhurd.com) is a psychologist in private practice in the Washington, D.C., area. He is the author of Effective Therapy (Dunhill, 1997) and Grow Up, America! (forthcoming). Dr. Hurd is the president of Living Resources, Inc., and publisher of “The Living Resources Newsletter.” The American Medical Association recently voted to form a national union [...]
1Feb2000 | Michael J. Hurd | 3 comments | ContinuedRecruiting Rural Physicians: Small-Town Socialism
As the supreme defender of the status quo, the state often feels a necessity to react whenever a broad market or social change is taking place. Lawmakers and bureaucrats are rarely satisfied to let new trends work themselves out for the public good in a free-market society. Such has certainly been the case with health [...]
1Jan1999 | William E. Pike | 1 comment | ContinuedLet’s Not Throw American Medicine into Boston Harbor
Jane Orient, M.D., is the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the FEE Board of Trustees. She is the author of Your Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care and a new novel about where the money is in medicine, Sutton’s Law. The ongoing [...]
1Jul1998 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | ContinuedLoved to Death: America’s Unresolved Health-Care Crisis
Dr. Hurd is a psychologist/author residing in Maryland. The Canadian health-care system of single-payer, socialized insurance is in trouble. Yet Congress and the president continue to push the American system in the same direction. As Canada’s national government slashes spending on medical care in order to reduce the deficit, local provinces are reducing medical staff. [...]
1Nov1997 | Michael J. Hurd | 1 comment | Continued-
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