Health Care
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What I Learned At Haas Business School’s Health Care Conference
Theres a lot of entrepreneurial energy in the Bay Area, but Im always surprised at how much of it is directed towards health care. As Apothecary readers surely recognize, if we were to rank sectors where the government lies ready to crush the entrepreneurial spirit, health care and education must ...
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Is CDC immune to pneumonia science?
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met last week to discuss the latest developments in the fight against pneumonia. They had the chance to prevent tens of thousands of deaths from the disease each year simply by recommending a new vaccine for routine delivery to adults. Unfortunately, ...
Health Care
Just Say No to ACOs
Say hello to Obamacare’s latest technocratic gimmick — the Accountable Care Organization (ACO). The first of these federally-chartered Pioneer ACO groups of healthcare providers just launched. Proponents of ACOs claim that the new entities will help doctors and hospitals better coordinate care in order to improve the health of Medicare ...
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How ObamaCare is already failing
A key technocratic gimmick of ObamaCare, the Accountable Care Organization, is rolling out now but the wheels are already starting to come off. ACOs are federally chartered health-care providers which, were told, will help doctors and hospitals better coordinate care to improve the health of Medicare patients and reduce ...
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Congenital American Impatience Points to Obamacare’s Failure
Healthcare spending grew at the second-lowest rate on record in 2010, according to recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS). Still, the $2.6 trillion the United States spent represented a 3.9-percent increase over the previous year. All told, health care consumed 17.9 percent of the U.S. Gross ...
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Obamacare’s threat to medical breakthroughs
The battle against skin cancer just became a bit more complicated. Researchers found that Zelboraf a promising new drug that attacks advanced-stage metastatic melanoma may speed the development of a different but more easily treatable form of cancer. And then, there are the cost considerations. The drug lengthens ...
Health Care
Health Care Expert Sally Pipes on Repealing, Replacing Obamacare
As a Canadian and firsthand witness of Canadas government-run health care system, Sally Pipes is warning that Obamacare will exacerbate the existing problems of rising costs and lack of access in the American health care system. At a recent Heritage event, Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, ...
Health Care
Dismantling Obamacare
Coffee and Markets On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Sally Pipes to discuss her book The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways to Dismantle Obamacare, some of the criticisms of Obamacare, and alternative solutions for fixing healthcare. We’re brought to you ...
Health Care
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, Galen Institute and Angel Raich File Amicus Brief Against ObamaCare
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, and the Galen Institute, today issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the 11th Circuit’s decision that the individual mandate under ObamaCare is unconstitutional. Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of ...
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Amicus Briefs Give A Supreme Condemnation Of ObamaCare
Statements both for and against President Barack Obamas signature health reform law are flooding the Supreme Court. Thus far, nearly 80 amicus curiae or friend of the court briefs have been filed. Many more will surely come in before the February 13 deadline These documents allow interest groups, lawmakers, ...
What I Learned At Haas Business School’s Health Care Conference
Theres a lot of entrepreneurial energy in the Bay Area, but Im always surprised at how much of it is directed towards health care. As Apothecary readers surely recognize, if we were to rank sectors where the government lies ready to crush the entrepreneurial spirit, health care and education must ...
Is CDC immune to pneumonia science?
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met last week to discuss the latest developments in the fight against pneumonia. They had the chance to prevent tens of thousands of deaths from the disease each year simply by recommending a new vaccine for routine delivery to adults. Unfortunately, ...
Just Say No to ACOs
Say hello to Obamacare’s latest technocratic gimmick — the Accountable Care Organization (ACO). The first of these federally-chartered Pioneer ACO groups of healthcare providers just launched. Proponents of ACOs claim that the new entities will help doctors and hospitals better coordinate care in order to improve the health of Medicare ...
How ObamaCare is already failing
A key technocratic gimmick of ObamaCare, the Accountable Care Organization, is rolling out now but the wheels are already starting to come off. ACOs are federally chartered health-care providers which, were told, will help doctors and hospitals better coordinate care to improve the health of Medicare patients and reduce ...
Congenital American Impatience Points to Obamacare’s Failure
Healthcare spending grew at the second-lowest rate on record in 2010, according to recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS). Still, the $2.6 trillion the United States spent represented a 3.9-percent increase over the previous year. All told, health care consumed 17.9 percent of the U.S. Gross ...
Obamacare’s threat to medical breakthroughs
The battle against skin cancer just became a bit more complicated. Researchers found that Zelboraf a promising new drug that attacks advanced-stage metastatic melanoma may speed the development of a different but more easily treatable form of cancer. And then, there are the cost considerations. The drug lengthens ...
Health Care Expert Sally Pipes on Repealing, Replacing Obamacare
As a Canadian and firsthand witness of Canadas government-run health care system, Sally Pipes is warning that Obamacare will exacerbate the existing problems of rising costs and lack of access in the American health care system. At a recent Heritage event, Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, ...
Dismantling Obamacare
Coffee and Markets On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Sally Pipes to discuss her book The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways to Dismantle Obamacare, some of the criticisms of Obamacare, and alternative solutions for fixing healthcare. We’re brought to you ...
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, Galen Institute and Angel Raich File Amicus Brief Against ObamaCare
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, and the Galen Institute, today issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the 11th Circuit’s decision that the individual mandate under ObamaCare is unconstitutional. Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of ...
Amicus Briefs Give A Supreme Condemnation Of ObamaCare
Statements both for and against President Barack Obamas signature health reform law are flooding the Supreme Court. Thus far, nearly 80 amicus curiae or friend of the court briefs have been filed. Many more will surely come in before the February 13 deadline These documents allow interest groups, lawmakers, ...
