I decided to take today off. I’m only reading stuff that isn’t directly related to diagnostic pathology. So, I picked up the monthly newsletter from the MSMA (Missouri State Medical Association). It laid out the healthcare bill in a simplified format, and stated point by point why it doesn’t support it (in contrast to the AMA). They bring up some good points. I was on the fence before regarding if I want this bill to pass, but I’ve decided I hope it doesn’t. Regulating insurance companies and requiring people to have health insurance are good things, and I think laws need to be passed to make this stuff happen. There are a bunch of problems though: (1) It does nothing for torte reform. Obama said frivolous lawsuits only account for like 1% of healthcare spending. That doesn’t take defensive medicine into account. (2) It doesn’t eliminate SGR (“sustainable growth rate,” a built in system in medicare that decreases spending by decreasing the amount physicians are reimbursed for services). (3) It creates a new bureaucracy with power to independently control medicare at a pretty extreme level. (4) According to the newsletter, the bill would “effectively ban” the development of physician owned hospitals. Read more...(219 words, 1 image, estimated 53 secs reading time)
One of the jobs of the Senate is to keep Bad bills from getting through. Think about it. Think about all of the highly contentious, arbitrary, partisan issues we have and have had that basically split the country down the middle. And think about the other possibilities of a simple majority rule. Read more...(712 words, 3 images, estimated 2:51 mins reading time)
I’m still amazed the Democrats are using Reconciliation. It’s just so inappropriate. But this is all on top of an amazingly brazen and belligerent bill – so my surprise is simply due to my optimism. Read more...(414 words, 3 images, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)
By the subject line you probably thought this e-mail would be about planets, but I am speaking about rare earth metals. Read more...(403 words, 3 images, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)
Wow, Tom Hanks is really stupid, or possibly just one more delusional Hollywood Leftist. He’s done a lot to teach history by acting in several great movies, but listen to what he said in a Time Magazine interview talking about the HBO series he’s in, about WWII in the Pacific. Read more...(402 words, 2 images, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)
In case you are losing a sense of the American Spirit, lest you forget, here is a reminder.
General George S. Patton’s Speach, Somewhere in England, 5 June 1944
Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.Read more...(1999 words, estimated 7:60 mins reading time)
Overall I don’t think the specific concern (“if doctors would be required to accept forced-on-us healthcare plans”) would become a huge problem. I know what this argument is getting at though. Medicare doesn’t pay doctors as much as private insurance. If their was a government option, it would pay as much as medicare. Cuts in medicare spending are a constant threat to control costs. “Cuts in medicare spending” translates exactly to paying physicians less for specific services. I’d be a lot more concerned if the government option was still part of the bill. Read more...(261 words, 1 image, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)
I am just getting over an upper respiratory viral infection. Next time, I know what I am going to take. According to Wikipedia, Read more...(117 words, 1 image, estimated 28 secs reading time)
Ever wonder why the US was so successful in kicking Mexico’s ass during the Mexican-American war? Or why we gave so much land back to them after our marines occupied the Halls of Montezuma in the capital of Mexico City? Read more...(129 words, 1 image, estimated 31 secs reading time)
This is a good graphic representation of the political ‘spectrum’.
There is a silly test you can take to see where you fall on this chart, nolanchart.com Although it isn’t a fair test. I fell just on the Libertarian side of the line between it and Conservative. I have a feeling the guy who made this was Libertarian. Just take the survey (test) and you’ll know what I mean. Read more...(144 words, 1 image, estimated 35 secs reading time)
I decided to take today off. I’m only reading stuff that isn’t directly related to diagnostic pathology. So, I picked up the monthly newsletter from the MSMA (Missouri State Medical Association). It laid out the healthcare bill in a simplified format, and stated point by point why it doesn’t support it (in contrast to the AMA). They bring up some good points. I was on the fence before regarding if I want this bill to pass, but I’ve decided I hope it doesn’t. Regulating insurance companies and requiring people to have health insurance are good things, and I think laws need to be passed to make this stuff happen. There are a bunch of problems though: (1) It does nothing for torte reform. Obama said frivolous lawsuits only account for like 1% of healthcare spending. That doesn’t take defensive medicine into account. (2) It doesn’t eliminate SGR (“sustainable growth rate,” a built in system in medicare that decreases spending by decreasing the amount physicians are reimbursed for services). (3) It creates a new bureaucracy with power to independently control medicare at a pretty extreme level. (4) According to the newsletter, the bill would “effectively ban” the development of physician owned hospitals. 
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Tom Hanks Delusional
By Noisy Dove on March 12, 2010
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