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How an Association Health Plan Can Protect Us from Obamacare — Webinar July 10
Because of rising healthcare costs due to provisions of Obamacare, having an Association Health Plan (AHP) can help protect you from these effects. Join Ralph Weber and special guest Rick Holder from RH Administrators on Tuesday, July 10 for this important …
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Vancouver hospitals fear drug shortage, cancel elective heart surgeries
In a single-payer system, everything is rationed. If your procedure is elective, you will have to wait while more critical patients get care. I’m trying to understand “elective heart surgery”. I understand elective cosmetic surgery, but it seems that if you …
Supreme Court Obamacare Arguments: Day Three PM
Analysis of Wednesday afternoon — Medicaid Expansion by Andrew Schlafly, JD Justices from the liberal side of the Supreme Court frequently interrupted the attorney for the states with questions suggesting that there are at least four strong votes for upholding …
Supreme Court Obamacare Arguments: Day Two
Analysis of Tuesday – the Individual Mandate Issue by Andrew Schlafly JD Oral argument began at 10am Eastern Time Update at 12:25 Eastern Time: it appears that the Individual Mandate will likely lose! These quotes show the ignorance …
Patient Confidentiality
“Provider shall readily make available to [Insurer], the Department, HCFA and any other government agency with regulatory authority, medical and health records of Beneficiaries receiving Contracted Services and all related administrative records.”
House Panel OKs Medicare Pricing Panel Bill
The MediCrats who authored Obamacare tried to give the appointed IPAB enough freedom to make unpopular decisions about Medicare rate cuts by allowing them to make rate decisions free from judicial review. If this Medicare Decisions Accountability Act passes, the IPAB will be eliminated. http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/03/01/house-panel-oks-medicare-pricing-panel-bill?utm_source=HCRW&utm_medium=eNL&utm_campaign=LifeHealthPro_eNLs …
Doctors Firing Patients
Mandatory Vaccinations It sometimes takes years to develop new drugs, and have them approved, and sometimes even after the drugs are FDA certified, they are shown to have adverse, even fatal effects. Do pediatricians KNOW as a 100% CERTAINTY that …
Morning Bell: Religious Liberty Under Attack
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/22/morning-bell-religious-liberty-under-attack/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email;utm_campaign=FHCP Morning Bell: Religious Liberty Under Attack Mike Brownfield February 22, 2012 at 9:50 am Today is Ash Wednesday — the first day of Lent — the beginning of 40 days of prayer and fasting observed by Christians across the …
AMA to House Speaker Boehner: Stop ICD-10
http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=31492:ama-to-house-speaker-boehner-stop-icd-10 The AMA currently earns $72 million per year on CPT codes, and that goes away if ICD 10 is implemented. Although I agree that going from 14,193 CPT codes to 140,000 would be a burden, I wonder. To avoid the …
