Healthcare

    Illinois: Beloved Doctor Benched For Not Being Proficient with Electronic Medical Records System

    By: cringinghere (Diary)  |  October 26th at 04:57 PM  | 

    A popular, longtime Doctor from central Illinois has been sidelined by employer Springfield-based Memorial Health System because he has not become proficient with the electronic medical records system that they purchased and implemented. Patients are so incensed that they’ve started a Facebook page as well as a blog to rally to his defense. This situation brings into focus the problem of top-down medical solutions, calling | Read More »

    Healthcare: Let The States Decide

    By: cringinghere (Diary)  |  June 9th at 12:05 PM  | 

    The debate about healthcare coming from the Democrats is steeped in purposeful misdirection on one hand and a complete lack of any real knowledge about what Obamacare will even do on the other. It is also a major overreach on a federalism level which is why it is hard to understand why more people aren’t talking about the Healthcare Compact plan (healthcarecompact.org).14 states have already | Read More »

    Feds Deciding When Healthcare Science Costs Too Much To Save Lives

    By: cringinghere (Diary)  |  October 22nd at 11:01 AM  | 

    If anyone wants a current example of what is looming ahead for medical science at the hands of Obamacare, the Avastin controversy is a perfect one. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to de-list the cancer drug Avastin one reason being that it is a drug too expensive for government to fund. It is scary to think that the federal government can summarily dismiss | Read More »

    Jury Damage Award Could Close Calif. Healthcare Facilities

    By: cringinghere (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 01:40 PM  | 

    When companies are found to have violated regulations that govern their industry, is it right that a jury of non-experts can award damages the amount of which will wipe the company off the face of the earth? That is a question that has been raised in a case recently decided against Skilled Healthcare LLC of California. A class action lawsuit (lawsuit info here) brought by | Read More »