Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Stop The Sovietization Of American Medicine

Forbes  "For me, the expanded reach of an already bloated central government brings back bad memories of being a physician in the Soviet Union, which collapsed under the weight of its own bureaucratic inefficiencies two decades ago. I was among the many Soviets cheering for its demise. Now I worry that some of the most ruinous traits of the Soviet system are taking hold of American medicine."
...."Washington has unleashed an avalanche of regulations that devour physicians’ time while disjoining us from patients. Without hard evidence of their effectiveness, these regulations are useless and, worse, harmful. "Hospitals, which now own many physician practices, are subject to multiple layers of oversight. Many establish more bureaucracy than required, at substantial cost, to ensure they appear compliant, or risk losing accreditation and funding."  Leonid Poretsky (right) is a Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Our own family physician bears all this out . TD   Also here.

"Soviet" definition: " ....any similar council or assembly connected with a socialistic governmental system elsewhere."


Rick Moran: House guerrilla tactics attempt to stymie Obamacare implementation   "There's more than one way to skin a cat and the GOP in the House are looking at ways to defund, or refuse to fund implementation of Obamacare in government.

"Next week, the House will take up a bill to prevent HHS money from going to the IRS."

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