Patient Care
The ACO Power Grab: Will Physicians Be Targeted If They Don’t Play Along?
The ACO power grab and those who stand to profit from it Sunday, May 19, 2013 - Medicine and Politics in America by Adam Frederic Dorin, M.D., MBA SAN DIEGO, May 20, 2013 - Get ready, dear America, health reform’s newest brain child, the Accountable Care Organization (or ACO), is coming to a neighborhood near you. ACOs have been compared to the HMOs of years past (and present). Some have compared ACOs to ‘mini-HMOs’, encompassing regional power structures caring for thousands o...
Guarding America’s Soul — Abuse of Power and The Next Evolution of AMS …
America’s Medical Society is transitioning to a more full-service educational vehicle to assist patients (especially those who are underprivileged) in navigating the health care system. In these uncertain political times of health care ‘reform’, this journey can be confusing and even hazardous. To those who remember, and perhaps miss, the strongly worded AMS editorials in opposition to the ‘Obamacare’/Affordable Care Act legislation, do not despair–there will...
Price controls for Medicare Part D death sentence for patients
SAN DIEGO, February 17, 2013 – There is a new battle brewing over the Medicare ‘Part D’ prescription drug program that has been in existence since 2006. To date, this program has come in consistently under-budget to the tune of a savings of $435 billion below initial budget. A Harvard study showed “Gains in comprehensive prescription drug coverage as a result of Medicare Part D were followed by a decline of more than 4 percent in the rate of hospitalizations for 8 conditions sensitive to medicat...
The intersection of medicine’s pseudo-reform and government tyranny
“The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.” – Thomas Jefferson SAN DIEGO, February 15, 2013 – American medicine will suffer untold losses of quality and many will die unnecessarily, not because we did not care but because we let power-hungry bureaucrats practice medicine without a degree. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ‘Affordable Care Act’ health care reform legislation. In...
