Health-Care Reform Must be in the Hands of Patients and Providers - Not Congress

Health-Care Reform: The Government Run Public Option is Rooted in the Intellectual Laziness of Congress and the Administration

Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:24 PM EDT

Consider the following syllogism: (1) To ignore (or refuse to consider) alternative solutions to health-care reform* is intellectual laziness. (2) Other than expanding the government's role in health-care, (public option, Medicare for all), the US Congress and Administrati …

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Health-Care Reform: A Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research is Redundant and Therefore Unnecessary

Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:22 PM EDT

One legislative proposal for health-care reform in the US House of Representatives is to establish, through the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research (H.R.

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Health-Care Reform: Progression From a Government Run Public Option to a Universal Single Payer Health-Care System – By the Numbers (Analysis of the US Population).*

Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:11 PM EDT

What will be required for the federal government to take control of health-care in the US? A majority stake in US health-care is the answer. The proposed government run public option (GoRPO) is the first step in the process.

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Health-Care Reform: Failures of Existing US Government Run Healthcare Programs

Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:17 PM EDT

MEDICARE 1) Medicare beneficiaries do not have the choice of physicians because many physicians elect not to participate in this program, mostly the result of the Medicare bureaucracy.

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What Americans Want and Do Not Want In Their Medical Care

Wed Sep 9, 2009 1:47 PM EDT

The Administration and Congress have established a self-imposed deadline for healthcare reform. The major argument is that healthcare reform is a mandate from the electorate.

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Health-Care Reform: A Government Run Public Option Is Not An Option

Wed Sep 9, 2009 1:40 PM EDT

The administration and most health-care reform bills pending in congress propose a government run public option (GoRPO) for the purposes of insuring the uninsured and reducing health-care costs by providing competition ("making insurance companies honest").

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Health-Care Reform: While Doctors Slept

Wed Sep 9, 2009 1:30 PM EDT

All Americans want health care reform. Moreover, as the President and others have said, there is a mandate for such reform. However, there is no mandate to get it wrong.

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Health-Care Reform: Lessons Learned – A Brief History of Medicare Legislation and Its Relevance to the Health-Care Reform Debate in the 111th Congress

Wed Sep 9, 2009 1:18 PM EDT

LESSONS LEARNED

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Health-Care Rationing - A Practical Construct

Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:26 PM EDT

The concept of health-care rationing has not been adequately discussed in public because it is a touchy subject, appropriately so.

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Comments & Feedback

WE CANNOT HELP our government FIX the HEALTHCARE SYSTEM because [to them] it has nothing to do with healthcare reform. WE DOCTORS NEED TO BYPASS GOVERNMENT AND TAKE CONTROL of the HEALTHCARE SYSTEM! Form the NATIONAL CONGRESS of PRACTICING PHYSICIANS (NCPP). The people of this country will support us! Schedule a national meeting-all doctors invited, only practicing physicians can be elected. It would be the only way to do the RIGHT THING FOR THE PEOPLE AND BUILD CONSENSUS AMONG PHYSICIANS. The government CAN'T DO S**T WITHOUT DOCTORS. We can control this. We should control this process because WE HAVE THE TRUST OF OUR PATIENTS- OUR PATIENTS KNOW THAT WE ALWAYS WANT WHAT IS BEST FOR THEM! Even if we don't all agree on the politics WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT OBAMGRESS IS INCAPABLE OF DOING IT RIGHT! Think about it - NATIONAL CONGRESS of PRACTICING PHYSICIANS (NCPP) .....first national meeting in the 1st week in January. Even if they pass heathcare reform--they can't do it with out us- -if physicians unite as a national congress representing our patients and ourselves--transparently, we will be supported by everyone. I participated in the 9-12 rally, and I can tell you that the 1.5-2 mil people there were protesting government reforming healthcare (public option) as much as anything else! ONLY PHYSICIANS CAN REFORM THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM RIGHT! All practicing physicians will come together and elect a congress of physicians that will work together for the benefit of our nations health. We will put our heads together and hammer out an healthcare reform proposal that will be better than any other, and done for all the right reasons- -out in the open-for all to see.
— Richard Gilson