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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Check out the article written: Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey



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This was sent to me today so please read below as it is VERY important about the future healthcare in the U.S....




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Basically, the article says doctors must lose autonomy and

there will be "penalties" if they don't treat patients the way the

government says they should...



http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs



please pass it along to any doctors and patients to increase awareness.



Here is the full article



Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey

Commentary by Betsy McCaughey

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.

Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.

Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.

New Penalties

Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)

What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make.

The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.

Elderly Hardest Hit

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.

Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464).

The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle’s book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis.

In 2006, a U.K. health board decreed that elderly patients with macular degeneration had to wait until they went blind in one eye before they could get a costly new drug to save the other eye. It took almost three years of public protests before the board reversed its decision.

Hidden Provisions

If the Obama administration’s economic stimulus bill passes the Senate in its current form, seniors in the U.S. will face similar rationing. Defenders of the system say that individuals benefit in younger years and sacrifice later.

The stimulus bill will affect every part of health care, from medical and nursing education, to how patients are treated and how much hospitals get paid. The bill allocates more funding for this bureaucracy than for the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force combined (90-92, 174-177, 181).

Hiding health legislation in a stimulus bill is intentional. Daschle supported the Clinton administration’s health-care overhaul in 1994, and attributed its failure to debate and delay. A year ago, Daschle wrote that the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition. “If that means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it,” he said. “The issue is too important to be stalled by Senate protocol.”

More Scrutiny Needed

On Friday, President Obama called it “inexcusable and irresponsible” for senators to delay passing the stimulus bill. In truth, this bill needs more scrutiny.

The health-care industry is the largest employer in the U.S. It produces almost 17 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. Yet the bill treats health care the way European governments do: as a cost problem instead of a growth industry. Imagine limiting growth and innovation in the electronics or auto industry during this downturn. This stimulus is dangerous to your health and the economy.

(Betsy McCaughey is former lieutenant governor of New York and is an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. The opinions expressed are her own.)

To contact the writer of this column: Betsy McCaughey at Betsymross@aol.com





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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

February 2009 Practice Gem by Chiropracticjobfinder.com

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-February Practice Gem: Thank you Dr. Loop for "6 Chiropractic Internet Marketing Tactics that Work"
-Featured Ad of the Month : Congrats to Congrats to Williams Chiropractic for the Featured Ad
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-Featured Doctor of the Month:
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February Practice Gem:

6 Chiropractic Internet Marketing Tactics That Work

(For the full version of his article, please contact Dr. Loop. His company's information is below)

Are you a chiropractor who's purchased an expensive website, only to find that new patients are not knocking your door down like your practice management group promised you? If you don't have a steady stream of online traffic, your office will not be noticed or found.

When it comes down to it, getting boatloads of traffic couldn't be easier in today's time. The problem is, chiropractic internet marketing that works is NOT taught in school and hardly any consultants are teaching it. Thesetraffic generation methods have been single-handedly responsible for me generating over five figures every month just in online income.

1. first thing that you can do is begin to implement article marketing. I recommend at least writing one article a week yourself.

2. Get a blog going for your practice. Once your blog is up, you'll want to add to it a few times a week. You can include articles, videos, press releases or podcasts on the blog. Blogs get indexed very well by the search engines as well. Wordpress and LiveJournal are two of the main hosts out there you may want to consider.

3. Third, regular posting on forums like Yahoo Answers is a good way to get good traffic. Make it a habit to take 15 minutes a day to post comments in relevant and highly targeted forums.

4. Continuing on, social networking (AKA social marketing) is another solid Web 2.0 medium to use with your chiropractic internet marketing campaign. Social media sites likeLinkedIn, Facebook, Myspace, and Friendster can allow you to easily connect with members in your community and create trust.

5. pay per click ( or PPC) advertising. Google, MSN, Yahoo, and other networks offer this targeted service as a way to get instant traffic to your chiropractic website. Make sure you set a spending limit every day so you don't go broke.

6. Finally, we arrive at chiropractic video marketing. It's been said recently, and I can tell you from a great deal of personal experience, that video is the most powerful medium for allowing yourtarget market or local community to get to know you!

Application of each of these proven tactics in your chiropractic internet marketing arsenal has the potential to dramatically change your practice life.

- Matthew Loop, DC

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Featured Ad of the month:

Congrats to Williams Chiropractic

ID#: 911; Date posted: January 21, 2009; Expire date: January 21, 2010; 30 visits

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Specific Location (City,State): Wyandotte, MI

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