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April 2006
No Medical Charity Allowed
by jasontromm
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It seems that Medicare and Medicaid consider it fraud if a physician charges any patient less than the government must pay for a medical service. If a doctor feels compassion for some poor soul and offers a discount, he must grant that “discount” for every billing for every patient in the government programs. If he forgives one indigent from paying at all, the government never has to pay for any such procedure.
()() Is this insane or what? Doctors want to do good works, but Medicare/Medicaid rules prevent them from giving out free services. Crazy!
January 2006
A Blueprint for Health-care Freedom
by jasontromm
The White House has been dropping hints that the president will make health-care reform the centerpiece of his State of the Union address. The Bush administration's health care record is, to put it delicately, inconsistent. It has supported efforts to remove government influence over the health care sector, such as health savings accounts (HSAs). On the other hand, the president signed into law the largest expansion of federal power over health care in generations the ill-fated Medicare drug program.
Media Portray Drug Plan as Boondoggle
by jasontromm
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But reporters still ignore free market advocates who predicted it.
Media coverage of problems facing the new Medicare prescription drug plan focused on elderly patients left in the lurch by bureaucracy, producing what CBS’s Bill Plante called a “political headache” for the Bush administration. But in the Jan. 16 reports on the “Evening News” and “World News Tonight,” both networks ignored conservative critics who had argued the plan was doomed to fail because it was a typical big government solution that ignored the free market.
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September 2005
Teaching Intelligent design Empty lesson in flawed thinking By Michael Duffy
by mikepower
It's as surprising as if the Health Minister had said sorcery-based cures would be available on Medicare, or the Minister for Defence had advocated bows and arrows as an alternative to tanks and machine guns.
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